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Govt vs Tweeple: Has clampdown hit free speech?: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 24, 2012 — filed under: Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
Has the Government crossed the line by ordering the blocking of several Twitter accounts, many belonging to prominent journalists? The debate was featured in NDTV on August 23, 2012.
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Govt wants to monitor Facebook, Twitter: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 09, 2011 — filed under: Internet Governance
The Union home ministry has written to the department of telecom asking it to "ensure effective monitoring of Twitter and Facebook".
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Govt wants to scrub the Internet clean: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 07, 2011 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
Web advocacy groups, experts say govt’s move to evolve content guidelines amounts to censorship. This article by Surabhi Agarwal & Leslie D’monte was published in Livemint on 7 December 2011. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in this article.
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Govt warns Facebook of stringent legal action if found misusing data: by Admin — published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance
IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says that under the IT Act, Facebook’s chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, can be summoned to India if required.
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Govt websites face major outage; hacking ruled out: by Admin — published Apr 07, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance
Defence Minister orders probe.
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Govt websites to get new addresses: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 08, 2012 — last modified Jun 11, 2012 03:27 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The government today said by December all its websites would switch over to IPv6 — the next generation Web standard that enables the creation of trillions of new Internet addresses and provides higher levels of security.
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Govt working to set up financial CERT to tackle cyber threats: by Admin — published Nov 25, 2017 — filed under: Cyber Security, Internet Governance
IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney says the government is getting the framework in place for financial CERT, which will be followed by other sectoral CERTs later.
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Grooming the geek: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance
Generation 2.0, the iPad child, is enriched by technology, and many parents are embracing it wholeheartedly. But can technology transform the way a child’s abilities develop?
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Ground Zero Summit: by Amber Sinha — published Dec 22, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 06:06 AM — filed under: Cyber Security, Internet Governance
The Ground Zero Summit which claims to be the largest collaborative platform in Asia for cyber-security was held in New Delhi from 5th to 8th November. The conference was organised by the Indian Infosec Consortium (IIC), a not for profit organisation backed by the Government of India. Cyber security experts, hackers, senior officials from the government and defence establishments, senior professionals from the industry and policymakers attended the event.
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Ground Zero Summit 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 12, 2014 — last modified Dec 05, 2014 12:42 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Geeta Hariharan participated in this event organized by India Infosec Consortium on November 13 and 14, 2014 in New Delhi.
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