'Under Section 79 of the IT Act, Facebook is mandated to exercise care. Once you have a duty, you do not have the right to silence; you need to show compliance.' Geetika Srivastava reports0 The......
The updated election ads policy for India will require advertisers to provide a 'pre-certificate' issued by the EC or anyone authorised by the poll panel, for each ad.Further, Google will verify......
India’s Central Monitoring System, which gives security agencies the power to snoop into over 1060 million e-mail accounts, mobile phones and social networking sites, has been compared to the......
The use of technology is today indispensible in anti-terror and anti-crime scenarios. However, its misuse is what bothers its critics, writes Vicky Nanjappa In a recent article, the New York Times......
Three days after being hacked by the Pakistan Cyber Army, the website of the Central Bureau of Investigation is still not working. According to sources in the CBI, experts are still working on......
Since its launch in April, helpline 155260 has been able to prevent more than Rs 18.5 million of defrauded money from reaching the hands of fraudsters.Shivani Shinde reports. All illustrations:......
India doesn’t have a data protection law or a dedicated law on cybersecurity. Also, there is no specialised law on privacy. Experts say this complicates the scenario for businesses as they......
A labyrinth of confusion leads to the small but neat fourth-floor office of Unistal Systems in Delhi's Nehru Place. The promoter of the Rs 20-crore company which manufactures data recovery software......
Experts believe that the government needs more innovative ways to secure the cyber space in the country and a cess is more like a punishment which would not help in the long run. Taking steps to......
People use Internet on smartphones, using apps which use their data to provide tailor-made services The Supreme Court (SC) landmark ruling on fundamental rights for privacy will influence the......