For the second year in a row, Maharashtra continued to be one of the top states in the country when it came to using the Internet to target women and particular communities. While Maharashtra topped the list of states where women were targeted for sexual exploitation online in 2014 and 2015, it came a close…
NEW DELHI: With the internet and social media becoming a way of life, the number of cyber crimes has been witnessing a steady rise over the years. Such crimes went up 20% last year as compared to 2014 while logging an increase of 2,400% over the last decade
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have asked the cable TV operators from Kashmir to stop broadcasting five news channels in Kashmir Valley, a move resented by the operators of these channels who claim that these are all satellite channels and don’t come under the purview of Cable Television Networks (Regulation Act 1995).
Earlier this summer, the north Indian state of Kashmir was hit with a new wave of riots when young militant leader Burhan Wani was killed by state police. Wani was the controversial head of Hizbul Mujahideen, a group fighting for the state to separate from India. He was embraced as a freedom fighter by many…
India’s recent track record in protecting freedom of expression is expected to come under close scrutiny in the next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2017, and leading the charge could be Holland. The UPR is a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council that periodically reviews the compliance of member states with international human rights…
Microsoft has announced a new dedicated web form, which will help users report hate speech hosted on any of the company’s consumer services. There’s also going to be a separate web form with request to reconsider/reinstate content, which might have been wrongly tagged as hate speech by someone or taken down by the Microsoft team.…
Digital India may be in full swing, but the events around it expose the lack of control and carefree nature of social media. BJP with its full might is taking credit for pushing India to the digital age but its vice president in Maharashtra does not seem to understand the way Twitter works as he…
Several Internet providers in India have found a clever way to reduce the load BitTorrent transfers put on their network, while pleasing their torrenting subscribers at the same time. They’ve teamed up with Torbox.net which offers a fully fledged torrent search engine that connects users to ‘local’ peers to guarantee maximum download speeds.
India has seen a 350% surge in cybercrime cases from 2011 to 2014, according to a recent study. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has also reported handling close to 50,000 security incidents in 2014, noted the study, titled “Protecting interconnected systems in the cyber era,” conducted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and…
According to Mashable, the social media giant isn’t going to give up on India and are looking to provide free internet service at railway stations. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) looks to follow Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) example by using the Wi-Fi option to win over the Indian people.