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Cause and effect Facebook-style
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 13, 2011
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Apr 01, 2011 03:44 PM
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Internet Governance
While the world is crediting Facebook for triggering the Arab revolution, do Facebook groups in India say anything about top of mind causes for young Indians? Crime touches a chord - the pages that have sprung up for Radhika Tanwar and Aarushi Talwar illustrate this - but it's the ideological issues that have made it to our top five list. Anja Kovas, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society, a Bengaluru-based research organisation, analyses the success of these causes.
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Digerati See Censorship in New Web Rules
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Prasad Krishna
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May 02, 2011
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May 05, 2011 02:21 AM
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Internet Governance
Attention Indian bloggers and social media fiends: the next time you’re composing a witty tweet or posting an edgy item on Facebook, please take care that what you’re writing isn’t “grossly harmful” or “harassing” or “ethnically objectionable” or – oh, the humanity! – “disparaging.” This news was published in the Wall Street Journal on May 2, 2011.
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Centaur website reveals guests' personal info
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Prasad Krishna
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Jun 20, 2011
The Centaur Hotels' website, centaurhotels.com, appears to have compromised personal information of its hotel guests, in what seems to be a case of poor internet security protocols implemented by the site. This allowed website visitors on Saturday to obtain and view details of passports, driving licences, pan numbers, credit cards, and other forms of personal identification provided by its guests.
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Gone in a flash
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 16, 2011
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Apr 20, 2011 04:58 AM
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Internet Governance
Net-savvy crowds gather in public places for moments of wacky fun, then vanish. This article by Neha Thirani was published in the Times of India Crest Edition on April 16, 2011.
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Dark waders
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 20, 2011
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Internet Governance
Akhila Seetharaman finds out why a group of artists and researchers are preoccupied with chasing shadows. This article was published in Time Out Bengaluru, Vol. 3, Issue 20, April 15 - 28, 2011.
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Citizens' forums want UID project scrapped
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 29, 2010
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Apr 02, 2011 12:26 PM
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Internet Governance
Citizens’ forums and groups have stepped up their attack on the Unique Identification Project calling for the complete scrapping of the project.
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Civic hackers seek to find their feet in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 03, 2011
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Apr 04, 2011 06:45 AM
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Openness
In 2006, when Sushant Sinha,who holds a doctorate in Internet security from the University of Michigan, tried to use the Indian government’s judicial rulings website, Judis.nic.in, he found it difficult to get the data he was looking for. “Judis.nic.in didn’t have a good text search or ability to sort results by relevance,” Sinha said. The lack of these two critical functions rendered the wealth of data on the site largely unusable.
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Call, text, email complaint against rogue auto driver
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 08, 2010
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Apr 02, 2011 10:45 AM
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Internet Governance
Harassed by an auto driver? Helplines give you no relief? Here's the people's way to help you out. Just report your issue online, call or even SMS sitting in a noisy restaurant, and be heard.
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Consumers International World Congress - Day 3 roundup
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Prasad Krishna
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May 05, 2011
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last modified
May 06, 2011 05:34 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights
Consumers can be empowered, and consumer organisations can make sure this happens through sharing and networking, speakers at the 19th Consumers International World Congress in Hong Kong said. The programme of the Congress finished on Thursday evening, and on Friday the global consumer body will hold its General Assembly and Council elections. This news was published in the Consumer's International Blog on May 5, 2011.
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Converting Indian Slacktivists Takes (Offline) Time
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 04, 2011
No matter how much attention an online protest campaign might appear to be getting in terms of likes, fans or retweets, it’s rarely likely to be able to draw even a fraction of its Internet supporters to a street protest. That’s as true in India as anywhere else in the world, it appears.
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