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Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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last modified
Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
India’s 900m-plus mobile telephones have fallen unusually quiet since Saturday, when the government curbed text and multimedia messages for 15 days in an attempt to dispel panic among north-easterners fearing attacks from angry Muslims.
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Indian music streaming service Gaana hacked, millions of users’ details exposed
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Prasad Krishna
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May 28, 2015
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last modified
Aug 22, 2015 04:44 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Indian music streaming service Gaana, which has over 7.5 million monthly visitors, has been compromised by a hacker and its user information database is now exposed.
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Indian net service providers too play censorship tricks
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 13, 2013
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi’s digital dream gets bad reception
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 29, 2015
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship,
Surveillance
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Silicon Valley’s most powerful chief executives this week how his government “attacked poverty by using the power of networks and mobile phones’’, the entire population of the state of Kashmir remained offline — by order of the state.
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Indian police set up lab to monitor social media
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 19, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Mumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
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Indian politicians yet to tap voters online: CIS’s Abraham
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 23, 2013
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Sunil Abraham talks about the role online media will play in forthcoming elections and the behaviour of online readers of news.
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Indian public concerned about fingerprint payment scheme
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 12, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Guardian is reporting that a prominent think tank has found that the prospect of using fingerprint authentication for everyday payments is raising privacy concerns among the Indian public.
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Indian SMEs still fail to harness the power of Net
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 19, 2011
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last modified
Jun 29, 2011 06:04 AM
In India, only about 81 million people have access to the net, as it needs a level of education and IT skills to operate a computer. This article by Satarupa Paul was published in the Sunday Guardian on 19 June 2011.
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Indian student in Cornell University hacks into ICSE, ISC database
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 06, 2013
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last modified
Jul 02, 2013 07:39 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
A 20-year-old Indian student from Cornell University hacked into the database of ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) school exam results, exposed glaring anomalies in the marking system and went on to merrily write about his exploits in an online post.
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