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Women's Panel Pushes IT Act Revamp With Victim Fund And Al Audits
It's time to make the internet safer for women. That's the clear message from the National Commission for Women (NCW), which has submitted a major report to the government demanding urgent changes to India's cyber laws.
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'Revenge Porn', 'Cyber Flashing' Banned In Singapore
Singapore's parliament passed a bill Monday that made distributing or threatening to distribute intimate images a crime, punishable up to five years in jail.
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Maharashtra Government Pulls Down 11 Websites Over Pirated Content
The Maharashtra government has pulled 11 websites down after receiving complaints from the entertainment industry that pirated content was displayed.
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China Says Investigating Baidu, Tencent, Weibo for Breaching Cyber Laws
This is the latest in a series of regulatory actions against the country's top tech firms as China's cyber authorities adopt an increasingly hardened stance on censorship.
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Thailand Wants to 'Analyse and Monitor all Data Available on Social Media'
Thailand is also planning a cyber law that will expand powers to pry into private communications.
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China Says Controversial Cyber Law Not Designed to Cripple Foreign Firms
"The purpose is to safeguard [China's] national cyberspace sovereignty and national security... rather than to restrict foreign enterprises."
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'Pentagon Was Hacked Too': Piyush Goyal On Security For Digital Payments
Minutes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began an ambitious new mobile-phone-payment application in December, several clones of the app popped up at Android smartphone stores. In the first few days, users were flooded with spam requests for money.
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Microsoft Gets Support In Gag Order Lawsuit From US Companies
Technology, media, pharmaceutical and other companies, along with major corporate lobbying groups, filed legal briefs on Friday in support of a Microsoft Corp lawsuit that aims to strike down a law preventing companies from telling customers the government is seeking their data.
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Supreme Court to Hear Plea to Ban Websites With Sikh Jokes
The petitioner said these websites created public nuisance under Section 268 of Indian Penal Code and it was a crime under the cyber laws.
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Hackers May Have Snared Details of Chinese Linked to US: Report
Chinese hackers accused of attacking US federal databases may have snared the names of Chinese with links to American officials, putting them in danger, The New York Times said Wednesday.
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White House Presses for New Cyber Laws After Vast Hack
Obama's allies seized on news of the hack to press for legislation stalled in the Republican-dominated Congress.
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"Unconstitutional": Supreme Court Scraps Section 66A, Protects Online Freedom of Speech
The Supreme Court has scrapped a contentious law that was seen as a major infringement of the freedom of speech online because it allowed the arrest of a person for posting offensive content. Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, has been declared unconstitutional. Describing the law as "vague in its entirety," the judges said, it encroach...
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Thai Junta Chief Defends Controversial Cyber Law Plans
Thailand's junta chief Tuesday defended proposals for a cyber law that critics say will grant the government unprecedented surveillance powers with little judicial oversight.
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Cyber laws meet: Applying section 66A of IT Act to require top cops' approval - Top 10 developments
Outrage over the use of section 66A of the Information Technology Act to arrest young citizens speaking their minds on social media platforms today pushed the government to put adequate checks and balances in place. The decision came as the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee met in New Delhi.
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Facebook row: Officials to meet today to review Information Technology Act
Amid the raging debate over freedom of expression in the social media and instances of arrests of people, officials are meeting in Delhi today to review a controversial section in the Information Technology Act.
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Women's Panel Pushes IT Act Revamp With Victim Fund And Al Audits
It's time to make the internet safer for women. That's the clear message from the National Commission for Women (NCW), which has submitted a major report to the government demanding urgent changes to India's cyber laws.
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'Revenge Porn', 'Cyber Flashing' Banned In Singapore
Singapore's parliament passed a bill Monday that made distributing or threatening to distribute intimate images a crime, punishable up to five years in jail.
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Maharashtra Government Pulls Down 11 Websites Over Pirated Content
The Maharashtra government has pulled 11 websites down after receiving complaints from the entertainment industry that pirated content was displayed.
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China Says Investigating Baidu, Tencent, Weibo for Breaching Cyber Laws
This is the latest in a series of regulatory actions against the country's top tech firms as China's cyber authorities adopt an increasingly hardened stance on censorship.
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Thailand Wants to 'Analyse and Monitor all Data Available on Social Media'
Thailand is also planning a cyber law that will expand powers to pry into private communications.
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China Says Controversial Cyber Law Not Designed to Cripple Foreign Firms
"The purpose is to safeguard [China's] national cyberspace sovereignty and national security... rather than to restrict foreign enterprises."
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'Pentagon Was Hacked Too': Piyush Goyal On Security For Digital Payments
Minutes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began an ambitious new mobile-phone-payment application in December, several clones of the app popped up at Android smartphone stores. In the first few days, users were flooded with spam requests for money.
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Microsoft Gets Support In Gag Order Lawsuit From US Companies
Technology, media, pharmaceutical and other companies, along with major corporate lobbying groups, filed legal briefs on Friday in support of a Microsoft Corp lawsuit that aims to strike down a law preventing companies from telling customers the government is seeking their data.
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Supreme Court to Hear Plea to Ban Websites With Sikh Jokes
The petitioner said these websites created public nuisance under Section 268 of Indian Penal Code and it was a crime under the cyber laws.
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Hackers May Have Snared Details of Chinese Linked to US: Report
Chinese hackers accused of attacking US federal databases may have snared the names of Chinese with links to American officials, putting them in danger, The New York Times said Wednesday.
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White House Presses for New Cyber Laws After Vast Hack
Obama's allies seized on news of the hack to press for legislation stalled in the Republican-dominated Congress.
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"Unconstitutional": Supreme Court Scraps Section 66A, Protects Online Freedom of Speech
The Supreme Court has scrapped a contentious law that was seen as a major infringement of the freedom of speech online because it allowed the arrest of a person for posting offensive content. Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, has been declared unconstitutional. Describing the law as "vague in its entirety," the judges said, it encroach...
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Thai Junta Chief Defends Controversial Cyber Law Plans
Thailand's junta chief Tuesday defended proposals for a cyber law that critics say will grant the government unprecedented surveillance powers with little judicial oversight.
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Cyber laws meet: Applying section 66A of IT Act to require top cops' approval - Top 10 developments
Outrage over the use of section 66A of the Information Technology Act to arrest young citizens speaking their minds on social media platforms today pushed the government to put adequate checks and balances in place. The decision came as the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee met in New Delhi.
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Facebook row: Officials to meet today to review Information Technology Act
Amid the raging debate over freedom of expression in the social media and instances of arrests of people, officials are meeting in Delhi today to review a controversial section in the Information Technology Act.
