A boy’s suicide this week in southern India after his mother scolded him for playing a popular online game has inflamed a national debate over whether the game should be banned. The 16-year-old’s father demanded a ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, after his son hanged himself from a ceiling fan at…
Mozilla, the not-for-profit entity behind the web browser Firefox, has called out the Narendra Modi government’s perceived attempt to stifle free speech over the Internet. The Centre has proposed to introduce rules that will require social media and e-commerce platforms to proactively take down “unlawful” user content that the government or its agencies determine to…
Jammu & Kashmir State Judicial Academy (SJA) organised a training programme here today on Cyber Law in which Judicial Officers, Public Prosecutors and Investigating Officers participated. Simultaneously, the programme was conducted through video link at Conference Hall, High Court Complex in Srinagar. On the initiative of Chief Justice Gita Mittal, renowned experts on Cyber Law:…
Earlier this month, a strange incident was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida where a UPI user reportedly lost Rs 6.8 lakh from his State Bank of India (SBI) savings account. The victim lodged a police complaint, informing that the money was transacted 7 times from his bank account during the last two months and he…
YES India might soon become a police state with bureaucrats having access to personal information Tathagata Satpathy Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark judgment that privacy is a fundamental right. There were celebrations across the nation after this judgment. Sadly, however, the same court completely changed its character a year later in…
Social media platforms and publishers with a presence in India may have to get a license to operate in the country, if the draft policy to check fake news is finalized in its current form, two people who are part of the ongoing consultations told TechCircle on the condition of anonymity. The sources were unaware…
The ban on porn in India is interesting in many ways – for some, it is a way to break through any dependency and addiction, while for some others it has become a lesson on how to use VPNs. The idea behind the porn ban in India is clear – the government wants to prevent…
The Telangana government wants more eyes on the streets to upgrade Hyderabad’s safety. It has asked enterprises, public sectors, residential associations and individuals to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in and around their premises. More than a lakh CCTVs are expected to be installed across the city in the next few years. The initiative is…
Use of the dark web brings in unique challenges for law enforcement agencies in India and raises questions on the loopholes in the laws in place to govern cybercrime in India. Recently, the term ‘dark web’ has been frequently used by the police, whether in the case of the activists recently arrested by the Pune…