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How Next-Gen Smartphone Users are Being Bought and Sold
After facebook and google, Twitter became the latest to buy millions of Indian smartphone users in July.
Surveillance: Privacy Vs Security
The Foundation for Media Professionals is organizing a debate at the India International Centre, New Delhi on August 17, 2013. Shri Kapil Sibal will give the opening speech. Natgrid chief Raghu Raman is one of the debaters. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event as a panelist.
Chinese hackers baiting Indian govt, corporate employees: report
Hackers using fake subject headings to get users to open virus-laden email attachments.
Facebook: Limiting access to social media can restrict freedom of speech
In its counter-affidavit to the PIL in the Delhi high court, Facebook has argued that limiting access to social media can limit an individual's freedom of speech and expression.
Token disclosures?
Snowden’s Xkeyscore expose makes a mockery of Twitter’s transparency revelations.
Crypto Night
Challenging government snooping at an all-night cryptography party.
Google brings tabs to sneak advertisements into your inbox
The shift away from desktop browsing to mobile web has put the squeeze on Google's advertising revenues from traditional payper-click . But the tech giant is trying to set things right by sneaking ads into the user's inbox.
Your telco could help spy on you
Telecom minister gives approval to changes in rules for mobile licences to enable such mass surveillance.
Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India
The Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg organized the Summer School 2013 at Hamburg, Germany from July 29 to August 2, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist in the session on "Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in India".
Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
Your life's an open Facebook
The jury's out on Facebook's newly introduced Graph Search. While some argue that it's a stalker's dream come true, others say it's a great tool for social research. Shikha Kumar jumps right into the debate.
Meeting of a Sub-committee on DNA Profiling Bill in Hyderabad
A sub-committee has been constituted as per the recommendations of the Expert Committee of DNA Profiling Bill. The sub-committee will have a meeting in Hyderabad on August 6, 2013.
Snooping technology: Will CMS work in India?
The Indian government plans to spend $132 million on setting up its brand new Central Monitoring System this year.
सावधान आपके प्रोफ़ाइल पर है पुलिस की नज़र!
जन लोकपाल, दिल्ली रेप केस और बाबा रामदेव के आंदोलनों में उमड़ी भीड़ से घबराई सरकारी एजेंसियां अब सोशल मीडिया पर कड़ी नज़र रखने के लिए मैदान में उतरी हैं.
How the world’s largest democracy is preparing to snoop on its citizens
Monitoring system will allow govt to snoop on voice calls, SMSes, and access Internet data.
India’s Central Monitoring System: Security can’t come at cost of privacy
During a Google hangout session in June this year, Milind Deora, minister of state for communications and information technology, addressed concerns related to the central monitoring system (CMS).
India's centralised snooping system facing big delays
Central Monitoring System lacks algorithms, database and data.
Is CMS a Compromise of Your Security?
By secretly monitoring and recording all Indians through a Central Monitoring System, our government will end up making citizens and businesses less safe.
dna exclusive: Geeks have a solution to digital surveillance in India: Cryptography
While you were thinking of what next to post on Twitter, the government has stealthily put an ambitious surveillance programme in place that tracks your every move in the digital world — through voice calls, SMS and MMS, GPRS, fax communications on landlines, video calls and emails.
Biometrics or bust? India's Identity Crisis
Malavika Jayaram is speaking at an event organized by the Oxford Internet Institute on July 2, 2013. The talk will be held at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS.
