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1) Defining Offensive: SC reserves verdict on pleas against 66A of IT Act, First Post. 2) Net Neutrality activists score landmark victory in fight to govern the Internet, Dominic Rushe, The Guardian. 3) Snapdeal has just been taken to court for selling vibrators, Manu Balachandran, Quartz India. 4) How the Military will fight ISIS on…
1) The great Internet swindle: ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Jon Henley, The Guardian. 2) Google boss warns of ‘forgotten century’ with e-mails and photos at risk, Ian Sample, The Guardian. 3) Can Twitter fix its harassment problems without losing its soul? Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review. 4) Millions of Facebook users have no idea…
1. We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea, Rober McMillan, WIRED. 2. Blocking online porn: who should make Constitutional decisions about freedom of speech?, Chinmayi Arun, Scroll.in. 3. Office Puts Microchips Under Employees’ Skin, Luke Karmali, IGN. 4. Why economists are wrong about tech, Michael Baxter, The Next Web. 5. Watch Vestigen’s…
1. Securing a future for Digital India, Arun Mohan Sukumar, The Hindu. 2. SC orders Google, Yahoo! And Microsoft to stop advertisements relating to sex determination, Apoorva Mandhani, LiveLaw. 3. Drone maker to add no-fly firmware to prevent future White House buzzing, Sean Gallagher, ARSTechnica. 4. The Pirate Bay is live once again, Selena Larson, DailyDot.
1. The Creepy ‘Black Mirror’ Universe Could Be Closer Than You Realize, Sara Bobitz. Huffington Post. 2. A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage for the Second Time Ever, Kim Zetter, Wired. 3. CES 2015: Toyota opens up hydrogen patents, BBC News. 4. Mumbai police block over 650 controversial Charlie Hebdo posts on social media, FP Staff, FirstPost India….
1. Cases that will define the contours of Free Speech over the Internet in India, CCG NLU-D, 2. Government admits that S. 66 A is prone to abuse, Supreme Court says the Section lacks guidelines, by Gaurav Pathak, LiveLaw. 3. India can do better than this luddite response to Uber, by Apar Gupta, Quartz India. 3. Surprise: Spanish Newspapers…
1. Should digital monopolies be broken up?, The Economist. 2. The Snowden effect, quantified, Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch. 3. Facebook can gain direct access to your mobile and take pictures or make videos at any time, MPs warn, Cristopher Hope, Telegraph. 4. Steve Jobs Lives on at the Patent Office, Antonia Regaldo, MIT Technology Review. 5. EU…
1. Cyberwar is bullshit, by Russell Brandon, the Verge. 2. Microsoft now has robot security guards, by Imad Khan, the Daily Dot. 3. China Takes The Great Firewall Up A Notch By Blocking An Entire Content Delivery Network, by Glyn Moody, Techdirt. 4. When Fitbit Is the Expert Witness, by Kate Crawford, the Atlantic. 5. Google has free speech…
1. Google’s New Open Source Privacy Effort Looks Back to the ’60s, by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Wall Street Journal Blogs – Digits. 2. Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains, by Andy Greenberg, Wired. 3. India Plans to Deal with Malicious Cyber-activities With New National Cyber Coordination Center, by Radu Tyrsina, Technology Personalized. 4. Facebook sees a 24% increase…
1. Google is Not What it Seems, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks. 2. Hungary’s Orban puts Internet tax on hold after huge protests, Kriztina Than and Marton Dunai, Reuters. 3. Good Intentions, Recalcitrant Text – I: Why India’s Proposal at the ITU is Troubling for Internet Freedoms, Geeta Hariharan, CIS-India. 4. Good Intentions, Recalcitrant Text – II:…