India has decided to ask Internet Telephony companies, including Skype, to set up servers in the country, and also ask ISPs and telcos to segregate IP addresses on a state-wise ... Continue_Reading

The Indian Supreme Court has directed all state governments to implement the Indian government guidelines which requires the approval of a senior police official before arresting any person for posting defamatory content ... Continue_Reading

It appears that mobile customization service app Zedge has been blocked on certain Internet Service Providers and mobile operators in India. ... Continue_Reading

by Maria Xynou We live in an Internet Surveillance State with us constantly being under the microscope. However, law enforcement agencies would not be capable of mining our data, intercepting our communications and ... Continue_Reading

Those enrolling on the UID database have not been informed that their data is to yield profit for the UIDAI, Rs 288.15 crore a year and its only investor, the ... Continue_Reading

As per the report of the TAG-UP Committee headed by Nandan Nilekani, government data and databases would be privatised through the creation of NIUs, which will then ‘own’ the data ... Continue_Reading

Between July and December 2012, Google has received 160 content removal requests from the Indian government to remove 2,942 items and it has fully or partially complied with 36% of ... Continue_Reading

Update: In a statement (below), Faisal Farooqui, Founder of MouthShut.com has said that the company has “been threatened with hundreds of legal notices, cybercrime complaints and defamation cases. At other ... Continue_Reading

Update: A statement in Parliament is non-committal on why exactly the complaint was filed, except that the Mapathon was without permission. In our opinion (detailed below), India’s Maps policy is ... Continue_Reading

Arguing against the blocking of pornography in India is a very tricky thing, especially when it is linked to rape: there’s a public interest litigation in the Kerala High Court, filed ... Continue_Reading

(By Nikhil Pahwa & Vikas SN) It appears that Care.org, the website of the non-profit organization fighting global poverty, has been blocked in India on at least two ISPs – ... Continue_Reading

“It became uneconomical”, Yashish Dahiya, Founder & CEO of PolicyBazaar told MediaNama, about the impact that the IRDA regulations had on the web aggregator business. “They said that anybody who ... Continue_Reading