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#NAMApolicy on Online Content Regulation
Swaraj Barooah attended the #NAMApolicy on Online Content Regulation organized by Media Nama at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on May 3, 2018.
Cyber experts say 'playground open' for influencing elections
Cyber experts said that under the provisions provided by 43 (A) of Indian IT Act, two types of data collection are completely legal: first, the data shared by the user in the public domain and secondly, the data published by the social platforms, like Facebook.
Data Usage by Political Parties
Sunil Abraham spoke to ANI regarding collection of data and its use by political parties for electoral gains.
Now, Twitter too caught up in Cambridge Analytica controversy
Twitter does not share a break-up of users by region, the platform has less than 100 million users in India.
You Are Not the Only One: India stares at a loneliness epidemic
“To anyone looking at me from the outside, I seem like a fairly successful woman. I have a good job with great pay. I am in a relationship and have a bunch of close friends. I couldn’t figure out why I felt so angry or so lonely all the time.
Aadhaar data of over 89 lakh MNREGA workers in Andhra Pradesh leaked online
Independent security researcher Kodali Srinivas tweeted screenshots of Aadhaar data of 89,38,138 MNREGA workers available on the Andhra Pradesh Benefit Disbursement Portal.
PAI WG Labor and Economy Meeting
Elonnai Hickok co-chaired the first PAI Labor and Economy WG in NYC on April 25, 2018.
Metrolife: Brutality porn has sadly many takers in India
The name of the eight-year old Kathua rape victim is trending not just on social media but also on a porn site.
ICANN 61 Readout
Akriti Bopanna attended an ICANN61 Readout session on the 19th of April at the International Institute of Information Technology at Electronic City in Bengaluru.
Facebook’s fake news clean-up hits language barrier
The sheer diversity of India’s ethnic languages could defeat Facebook’s move to get content moderators and use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter the spread of misinformation on its platform ahead of the general elections next year, experts said.
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Facebook?
After two days of congressional hearings that collectively lasted over ten hours, there are many questions about Facebook, its policies and its future that experts are debating.
Pension won’t be denied for want of Aadhaar, says EPFO
The move is aimed at ensuring that no retired government employee is deprived of pension for want of Aadhaar or failure of fingerprint authentication.
It feeds on you!
A robust data protection law can prevent Facebook from manipulating users
Govt websites face major outage; hacking ruled out
Defence Minister orders probe.
Cambridge Analytica row: Facebook data breach hit 560K Indian users
Facebook said that data and information of 87 million users globally were compromised.
It Took Just 355 Indians to Mine the Data of 5.6 Lakh Facebook Users. Here's How
Data privacy in India is still a nascent subject. Experts say cheap data has led to unprecedented Facebook penetration. Often, it is seen that those who open an account are not aware of the privacy concerns.
After data leak row, Facebook imposes restrictions on user data access
MEIT issues notice to Facebook even as experts debate absolute impact on the second largest developer community.
Your mobile apps have the permission to spy on you
The top applications on the Android Play store in India seek permission like access to your camera, microphone, modify contacts and download files without notifications depending on the use of the app.
If data is the new oil, how much does an Indian citizen lose?
Surveillance capitalism is the business model of the Internet, so what exactly are we talking about here?
Parties seek social media influencers to go viral
It was 2015. Rahul Gandhi, Congress vice president then, met Mount Carmel College students in Bengaluru. Soon after the interaction, there were media reports on how Gandhi was stumped by the questions.
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