Facebook is restricting search results – is this taking transparency seriously?

Facebook is deliberately limiting the number of archived public messages anyone can see: hiding many messages sent by all manner of Facebook pages

We are pirates all

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Caught in the Web

Is getting hooked to the Internet a distinct disorder or is it a symptom of other psychiatric illnesses?

"A fragile experiment is under way"

Bertrand de la Chapelle is the Special Envoy for the Information Society, French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry. A recent meeting of the …

Hello Point in Odisha: A tale of digital India or ignorant India?

Odisha has the highest number of inhabited villages without access to mobile networks  

COVID-19: How viable is online education?

Skill-development needs experiment and experience, which may not be feasible in online learning

‘Telecom industry did no research on health impacts of 5G’

India plans to begin 5G trials by 2020, but experts and industry stand at odds over its impact on human health and environment. The fifth …

Online drug sale ban: Is there a need to regulate e-pharmacies?

Following an interim ban on online sale of medicines, many questions have been raised on the need for checks and balances

COVID-19 effect: Public concerns about environment have risen

There was an increase of 16% in the numbers of people concerned about loss of biodiversity from 2016-2020, described by experts as ‘eco-…

Farm to Facebook: India’s catch-up evolution in techno-policy landscape

India needs to work out problems in old policies and develop new ones that ensure a rapid tectonic shift in India’s technological future

Dictators in digital world

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Self medication - buyers beware

Australian doctors have warned Internet users against buying drugs online. They caution that many "health" websites do not provide adequate …

Big Brother is watching you; actually your face

Facial recognition has become a frontline policing tool in India amid fears that it is prone to errors and allows the government to expand …

Banning spam

The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice …

Politics of the Internet

Regulating the Internet to keep it free of pressures from governments and corporate interests is turning tougher for the UN

Website review: Stargazers' delight

http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

Looming threat of a secretive trade pact

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally

Time for some ‘sustainable charity’

Water and electricity wasted because of the Ice Bucket Challenge could have provided water to 17,777 households and lighted up 16 million households

Fascism on the internet

The US seizure of domain names on the web is ostensibly a crackdown on online piracy but it could end up as censorship

Keeping Internet global and free

With the US pulling out of the control of the Internet, the world is debating a multi-stakeholder model of governance

What's with this Kolaveri about John Doe injunctions?

In jurisdictions where the law of copyright is much more matured as compared to India, the injunctions are issued very judiciously, and by …

Bringing Google to book

Google’s digital library project went too far, creating a monopoly over the heritage of books

Website review: Sleuthing for information

Nosy journalists are urged to take a dekko at this website of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The project is …

Green Internet

Internet-based technologies come at a cost—extensive energy consumption. A few technologies have been developed to reduce energy wastage …