The Bombay High court recently passed a John Doe order laying down a set of safeguards to minimise over-blocking. The Delhi High Court on the other hand ordered blocking of 73 websites for showing “substantial” pirated content. This blog post traces the history of John Doe orders in India, their impact on free speech and…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is expected to issue its final recommendations in a month’s time on the issue of free data, which has been opposed by telecom service providers and some internet content providers alike. A senior Trai official told The Indian Express that the exercise was aimed to increase the overall…
Facebook is holding talks with a number of ISPs in India to expand its Express Wi-Fi programme, after trials in rural areas in partnership with BSNL. Express Wi-Fi, aimed at making broadband in rural areas more affordable, rolled out 125 rural public Wi-Fi hotspots with the state-run operator as part of a pilot project, the Economic Times…
When angry protests broke out after security forces shot dead charismatic Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8, the Jammu and Kashmir government promptly blocked mobile internet services in the region. The move, as always, was apparently to prevent the spread of dangerous rumours and incitement to violence through social media. Twelve days later,…
Srinagar: The communications blockade in Jammu and Kashmir has led to tragic situations. A family in Rawalpora have been going about their lives happily, thinking their son in Saudia Arabia is also going about his life happily. The news that the son had in fact died in a road accident could not reach them. His…
The bad guys on the dark side of the web have gotten bolder, nastier, and they couldn’t be happier. 2015 turned out to be a jackpot year for cyber thugs that saw over half a billion stolen records and over 100 new ransomware families being discovered.
If you pick up a newspaper in Noida on any day and flip through the city pages, chances are that you will come across at least one, if not more, reports of crimes involving technology. From credit card fraud to hacking social media accounts, cybercrimes, it seems, are all too common in Noida. This is…
MUMBAI — Mallika Sherawat, who has been very vocal about her support for women-related causes, has recently shot for a documentary on women’s issues in Mumbai. Titled “Free a Girl,” the film is being made by the volunteers of the ‘Free a Girl Movement’ — a Dutch project that highlights violence against Indian women. Read…
When it comes to connecting India’s population to the internet, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is having better luck than his Facebook Inc. counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg. Google began offering free Wi-Fi at about two dozen train stations in the country earlier this year, and now has 2 million people using the service each month, Pichai…
New Delhi: Only a quarter of teenagers in India feel communications service providers understand their lifestyle and offer services to match it while 36 per cent said they were experiencing poor customer service for over a year, a survey revealed on Tuesday. Announcing the results of a global study into the digital behaviour and expectations…