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Some Key Words Are Missing — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 23, 2016 01:40 AM
Google manipulating search results? The Competition Commission is on its case.
How Long Have Banks Known About The Debit Card Fraud? — by tiwari — last modified Oct 22, 2016 08:06 AM
The recent security breach in an Indian payment switch provider, confirmed earlier this week by the National Payments Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), has forced domestic banks into damage control mode over the past few days.
What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India — by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Oct 22, 2016 04:12 AM
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
RBI Directions on Account Aggregators — by Vipul Kharbanda and Elonnai Hickok — last modified Oct 21, 2016 03:25 PM
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Directions for account aggregator services in India seem to lay great emphasis on data security by allowing only direct access between institutions and do away with data scraping techniques.
Workshop on Competition Law and Policy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 23, 2016 01:51 AM
National School of Law India University and the Delegation of European Union to India jointly organized a workshop at Competition Commission of India in New Delhi from October 19 - 21, 2016. Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané participated and made presentations.
Querying Wikipedia Data — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 21, 2016 02:51 PM
Recently I wrote a blog about the stub article length of Wikipedia articles. I mentioned the difference in actual number of characters and the number of bytes used to define stub articles between English and Indian language Wikipedias. One can open any language Wikipedia, type Special:ShortPages in the search box to get the list of articles which have less than 2048 bytes.
The Big Debit Card Breach: Three Things Card Holders Need To Understand — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 21, 2016 01:43 PM
A total of 32 lakh debit cards across 19 banks could have been compromised on account of a purported fraud, the National Payment Corporation of India said in a statement.
Intelligence agencies will not have open access to Aadhaar data: UIDAI chief — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 21, 2016 01:32 AM
Intelligence agencies will not have free access to Aadhaar data, a top government official said on Thursday, looking to assuage fears of abuse of personal information.
MLATs and the proposed Amendments to the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act — by Vipul Kharbanda and Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 28, 2016 01:09 AM
In continuance of our blog post on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), we examine a new approach to international bilateral cooperation being suggested in the United States, by creating a mechanism for certain foreign governments to directly approach the data controllers.
UTF-8, Indic and Stub Length Article in Wikipedia — by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Oct 20, 2016 02:26 AM
One of the activities conducted as part of Wiki Conference India 2016 was the Punjab Editathon. It was about adding articles related to Punjab to Indian language Wikipedias and English Wikipedia. There was also an announcement made about some award for highest contribution.
(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards — by Harsh Gupta — last modified Oct 20, 2016 01:44 AM
World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.
Technical Alternative to Encrypted Media Extensions — by Harsh Gupta — last modified Oct 20, 2016 12:16 AM
This post is an analysis of the various technical alternatives to EME (encyrpted media extensions) that have emerged from the discussions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These alternatives and the proposed EME specification along six dimensions are examined.
Seminar on Quality of Services in Telecom and Data Services: Issues, Challenges and Solutions — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 19, 2016 02:15 AM
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi organized a seminar on quality of services in telecom and data in Delhi on September 21, 2016. Shyam Ponappa was a speaker.
New regulations in place; Aadhaar Card records to be preserved for 7 yrs by Centre — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:46 PM
UIDAI chief executive office ABP Pandey said that the concerns regarding Aadhar card-related benefits were "exaggerated" and that the agency will keep the records in case any disputes arise in the future.
Digital Native: The Future is Now — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:12 AM
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
Love in the Time of Tinder — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:07 AM
Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
Govt to keep Aadhaar record for 7 years, activists worried — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 17, 2016 01:53 AM
The government will keep for seven years a record of all the services and benefits availed using the Aadhaar number, say new rules, prompting fears that the database could be used for surveillance.
Request for Specifics: Rebuttal to UIDAI — by Hans Varghese Mathews — last modified Oct 30, 2016 03:06 PM
Responding to the Unique Identification Authority of India’s article that found “serious mathematical errors” in “Flaws in the UIDAI Process” (EPW 12 March 2016), the main mathematical argument used to arrive at the number of duplicates in the biometric database is explained.
Learning through Archives: A Colloquium on Digital Scholarship — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 05, 2016 11:27 AM
FLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.
Here is why government twitter handles have been posting offensive and partisan messages — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 16, 2016 03:24 AM
You have failed us big time Mr Kejriwal, for your petty political gains you can become headlines for Pakistani press,” read a tweet on October 5 from @IndiaPostOffice, the official twitter handle of the Indian postal service.
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