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Open standards can disrupt Facebook’s messaging monopoly
Facebook made the news last week when The New York Times’ Mike Isaac reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg intended to integrate the company’s three messaging platforms: WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
Submitted Your Biometrics for Aadhaar? Here’s How You Can Lock/Unlock That Data
Did you know that UIDAI provides a facility that allows users to lock/unlock their Aadhaar biometric data online?
New movies lose out due to piracy
Piracy continues to be a huge concern among filmmakers but it can also be a marketing strategy for small-budget films.
Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools
Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.
Cyber Policy Centres Meeting in Sri Lanka
Elonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Ambika Tandon participated in this event organized by IDRC in Sri Lanka on January 11 - 14, 2019.
RFCs We Love meetup
In collaboration with India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc), CIS hosted the a 'RFCs We Love' meetup, where we discussed some IETF specifications and standards. The event was held on January 19 at the CIS office, Bangalore.
Is the viral #10YearChallenge just another sneaky way for tech firms to gather users’ personal data?
Is it merely an exercise in nostalgia? Or is it providing fodder for facial recognition algorithms on ageing?
Oyo Hotels’ Real-Time Digital Record Database Sparks Privacy Fears
Oyo Hotels’ pilot to maintain a real-time digital database of guests and plan to share it with law-enforcement agencies has triggered privacy concerns.
Webinar on the draft Intermediary Guidelines Amendment Rules
CCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter organised a webinar on January 10 to discuss the draft "The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018". Gurshabad Grover was a discussant in the panel.
They know where you are
With hotel-booking app routinely sharing real-time guest data with police and government, lives of those fleeing persecution is in danger, privacy advocates fear.
Civic activism over WhatsApp and stories of and from cab drivers are part of a new narrative in Bengaluru
Does a city have a pulse? And can that pulse be felt in its technological interactions?
Creeped out by Netflix's 'You'? Here's how you can avoid online stalkers, data thieves
Several social media users have no idea of how much of their information is stored on the Internet and what kind of information they are allowing the applications to access.
The constitutionality of MHA surveillance order
The rules require review committees to examine all surveillance orders issued under this section every couple of months.
MHA snoop order & bid to amend IT rules: China-like clampdown or tracking unlawful content?
An MHA order last week authorised 10 government agencies to scan data on computers. This was followed by the Modi government’s proposal to amend the Information Technology rules for social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter to “proactively identify, remove or disable access to unlawful information or content” in order to curb fake news online.
The dark side of future tech: Where are we headed on privacy, security, truth?
#2018 Year-End Special: We now live in a time when devices listen, chips track your choices, and governments can watch from behind a barcode. How do we navigate this world?
India-China Tech Forum 2018
Arindrajit Basu spoke at the India-China Tech Forum 2018 organised by ORF and Peking University at the Ji Xianlin Centre for India-China Studies, Mumbai on December 11 - 12, 2018. The event functioned as a bi-annual dialogue that fosters co-operation in this space between the two countries.
Big Brother is here: Amid snooping row, govt report says monitoring system 'practically complete'
The recently released 2017-18 annual report of the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) says that surveillance equipment is being rolled out in 21 service areas across the country.
How data privacy and governance issues have battered Facebook ahead of 2019 polls
Rohit S, an airline pilot, had enough of Facebook. With over 1,000 friends and part of at least a dozen groups on subjects ranging from planes to politics, the 34-year-old found himself constantly checking his phone for updates and plunging headlong into increasingly noisy debates, where he had little personal connect.
Is Aadhaar Essential To Achieve Error-Free Electoral Rolls?
The Election Commission’s plans to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls may have stirred a hornet’s nest.
AI for Social Good Summit
Arindrajit Basu was a speaker at the event co-organized by Google AI and United Nations ESCAP on December 13, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
