New Delhi: The issue of the US National Security Agency monitoring internet data of India on Tuesday reached the Supreme Court with a PIL filed seeking its direction to the Centre to initiate action against internet companies for sharing information with foreign authority in "breach" of contract and violation of right to privacy.
The PIL, filed by a former Dean of Law Faculty of Delhi University Professor SN Singh, alleged such large-scale spying by the USA authorities is detrimental to national security and urged the apex court to intervene in the matter.
"As per reports, US-based nine internet companies, operating in India through agreements signed with Indian users, shared 6.3 billion information/data with National Security Agency of USA without express consent of the Indian users. Such large-scale spying by the USA authorities besides being against the privacy norms is also detrimental to national security," the petition, filed through advocate Virag Gupta, said....
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07:45 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Chandigarh: Google India launched a campaign which is aimed at simplifying the web for the country's internet users. "The objective of the campaign is to help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant answers to their most common queries," Sandeep Menon, Director, Marketing, Google India, said here. He said that as more Indians come online for the first time, they are increasingly looking for convenient...
10:35 AM, Jun 18, 2013
Christchurch: Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online. It was the culmination of 18 months' work on what Google calls Project...
01:19 PM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Acting on its concern and surprise at the internet data mining by US intelligence agencies, including from India, the Indian government has taken up the issue with the US envoy, government sources said on Thursday. National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, who also helms the India-US cyber security dialogue along with his US counterpart, took up the issue on Monday when he met US Ambassador Nancy Powell. The issue...
04:45 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Reports that India is the fifth most tracked nation by the US intelligence system has invited strong reactions from youth, who consider it an intrusion into their privacy. A recent revelation by the UK-based Guardian newspaper about the extensive spying operations of the United States National Security Agency has exposed the regular interception and monitoring of electronic communications between ordinary people across several countries, including India. "People share...
11:30 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: India said on Tuesday it would be "unacceptable" if it is discovered that Indian laws on privacy have been violated by the surveillance launched on web users worldwide by the US National Security Agency (NSA). "If it is discovered that Indian laws relating to privacy of information of ordinary Indian citizens have been violated we would find it unacceptable," external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said at a...
04:20 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Friday defended the newly revealed government surveillance programmes as a small price to pay for keeping America safe from terror attacks. Sweeping up Americans' telephone records and monitoring Internet activity from overseas are "modest encroachments on privacy" that can help US intelligence analysts disrupt terror activity, he said during a four-day trip to the West Coast. "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he reassured...
03:07 AM, Jun 08, 2013
San Francisco: Major tech companies including Apple Inc, Google and Facebook Inc on Thursday said they do not provide any government agency with "direct access" to their servers, contradicting a Washington Post report that they have granted such access under a classified data collection program. The newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency and the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies"...
12:40 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Washington: Information collected through a US government surveillance program that taps into the servers of internet companies targets only non-US persons living outside the United States, a senior administration official said on Thursday. The US law that allows the collection of data under this program does not allow the targeting of any US citizen or of any person located in the United States, the official said, speaking on condition of...
12:18 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Washington: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, allowing investigators to examine e-mails, photos and other documents that can be used to track people and their contacts over time, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The highly classified anti-terrorism program, code-named PRISM, had not been disclosed publicly before. A US government source who was not authorized to...
12:06 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Details are now emerging that the US government allegedly has been monitoring internet activity of millions of people worldwide. The Washington Post and The Guardian are reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI are tapping directly into the servers of nine leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. ...
11:51 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Wales: Prices of the rarest books are rising as the Internet drives the trade off dusty shelves and into the digital age, a leading expert said this weekend. Matthew Haley, head of the books, manuscripts and photographs department at auction house Bonhams in London, said the rise of online catalogues and aggregators of booksellers' stock meant more collectors were aware when a rare find came on the market. "More people...
05:07 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Chennai: Handset manufacturer Karbonn India has tied up with mobile phone service provider Vodafone to offer internet plan services for its consumers. "Consumers buying Karbonn Titanium S5 will enjoy 1GB 3G/2G/EDGE unlimited internet plant free for three months from Vodafone. It also offers first time Vodafone 3G customers using Karbonn A12 500MB 3G/2G/EDGE Internet plan for two months", a company statement said. "We entail maximising user experience and thus have...
04:08 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Mountain View: LinkedIn is joining the crowd of Internet services tying account security to mobile phones. In a change announced on Friday, the roughly 225 million users of LinkedIn's online professional networking service can now choose to require a code to be sent to their phones whenever an attempt is made to log in to an account from a device for the first time. The code sent to the phone...
12:27 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: That blue and white icon with a check mark is a much desired badge on Twitter. So what if even a fake account can flaunt one? Google Plus, the latecomer to the social networking party, also has its verified checkmarks. And finally the big daddy of social networks, Facebook, has also announced its own Verified Pages and Profiles. "We're launching verified Pages to help people find the authentic...
03:45 AM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: One reason we often give in support of banning the internet porn is that the step will be helpful in curbing the crime against women. Those who oppose the proposed ban see it as a devise to control the freedom of expression. Deshmukh, a Britain based businessman and the creator of Savita Bhabhi, is one of them and now, he has come up with a film which deals...
10:18 AM, May 28, 2013
Dushanbe: Tajikistan has blocked YouTube for the third time in less than a year without an official explanation, a representative of the country's internet industry said. The ban was ordered by the governmental Communications Service, said Asomiddin Atoyev, who heads the association of the country's internet service providers. The orders came by email or text message, depending on the provider, Atoyev said. Only one of the country's six main internet...
01:20 PM, May 26, 2013
Washington: Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Internet search giant - which has for years espoused universal Web access - is employing a patchwork quilt of technologies and holding discussions with regulators from South Africa to Kenya,...
04:43 PM, May 25, 2013
San Francisco: Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere - including to the crowded bathrooms. Google Glass, a cross between a mobile computer and eyeglasses that can both record video and surf the Internet, is now available...
11:08 AM, May 19, 2013
