India needs to sign a Cybercrime Convention    Karnika Seth, cyberlaw expert & Advocate , Supreme Court of India Today most cybercrimes  such as 419 Nigerian attacks or fake employment or lottery scams are transborder. In the age of social media and cloud computing, investigation of cybercrimes require data and evidence often located in another […]

Beware of that feedback-Hindustan Times Priyank applies for a job. The company’s hiring manager, who knows his current boss, calls him to get feedback on Priyank and in an informal chat discloses Priyank’s interest in the new job profile (which eventually Priyank doesn’t get.) Sarthak lands a job at a multinational company. He wants to […]

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Google sued for showing defamatory results,Hindustan Times, June 23,2011 In New Dehli, Arindam Chaudhuri filed a major lawsuit against Google and several other sites for publishing and distributing “defamatory, libelous, and slanderous articles.” His action created a maelstrom of debate on whether or not aggregation websites, including search engines, can be held responsible for showing […]

Respite from Internet Censorship? by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 10, 2012 03:51 PM Of late, a lot of the blocked websites have started reappearing. So should we sit back and relax? We take a look at how it’s not really the start of something beautiful…writes Nimish Sawant. Sunil Abraham is quoted. Published in […]

Amendments to law required, say experts Sandeep Rana Tribune News Service Dehradun, May 21 To tackle the rising number of cyber and IT crimes in the country, amendments to the law are needed to be done, feel cyber law experts who gathered here today to attend a cyber crime seminar. “This is not clear for […]

Twitter working to locate unlawful content, Business line, Aug 22,2012 New Delhi, Aug 22: Though the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) requested social networking site Twitter to control its parody accounts, cyberspace was agog with chirpings on Wednesday on the issue. Tweets such as “Government Locks Horns with Twitter Again: Blocks Six Parody Accounts,” “Parody PMO […]