Twitter agrees to block fake PMO accounts, but many other handles get blocked in the process. ...
11:31 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Serious questions are being raised over the Central government's ability to deal with offensive content on the internet. ...
10:58 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday issued guidelines for its departments using social media networks asking them not to post confidential information and "unverified" facts. With 40 million Facebook and 16 million Twitter users in India, social media have emerged as a powerful platform for forming an opinion as well as generating mass support, the Information Technology Ministry said in its 38-page guidelines issued on Thursday. "Great care must be...
06:54 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given the microblogging site Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours deadline to remove the objectionable content or face a shutdown in...
12:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government has confirmed that no accounts on the microblogging site Twitter have been blocked so far, sources said on Thursday. They claimed that the Ministry of Home Affairs' request for show cause notice to offensive and provocative handles was still pending with Twitter. In the wake of the mass exodus by Indians from the Northeast, the government had proposed cracking down on hate content on social media...
10:34 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Jamshedpur: In the ongoing crackdown against hate content on social media websites in the wake of the northeast exodus, a former journalist in Jamshedpur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting inflammatory messages online. The police seized his computer and hard disk. A probe is on. Meanwhile, 19 more suspects have been arrested in the Azad Maidan violence case. While two of them were produced in court on Wednesday and...
09:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Dubai: United Arab Emirates authorities on Sunday briefly detained a political activist who criticised one of the Gulf country's rulers on his Twitter account, a prominent Emirati blogger said. Ahmed Mansour told The Associated Press on the phone that security agents detained the activist, Mohammed Abdel-Razzaq al-Siddiq, before dawn Sunday. He was taken from his home in the emirate of Sharjah and released on bail later Sunday, Mansour said. The...
09:41 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the city police on a plea of Yahoo India Pvt Ltd challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly hosting objectionable content. "Notice be issued for February 10," Justice Suresh Kait said while admitting the petition of Yahoo India for hearing. The court also allowed Yahoo India's plea that its case be heard separately. Senior advocate...
01:20 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Corporate espionage has been made easy by social networking websites as a well-devised strategy can result in the leak of valuable business secrets by employees and ex-employees, according to a study by Cyberoam, the security vertical of IT company Elitecore Technology. "You just need to get into the social network of the company, worse still, you just need to be an Internet search expert to get information that...
04:04 PM, Nov 21, 2011
