SC to hear plea against Andhra government on Section 66A

15 May, 2013, 6:05 pm IST General

The Supreme Court will Thursday hear a plea seeking to restrain the Andhra Pradesh government from invoking Section 66A of the Information Technology Act to stifle people... More

Google releases latest Transparency Report

11 Mar, 2013, 3:19 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General

The numbers from Google's latest Transparency Report are here. In its report, Google sheds light on factors like the number of removal requests it More

China, Russia seek greater control of Internet, US says

08 Mar, 2013, 9:55 am IST General

China and Russia are buying increasingly powerful surveillance technologies to intercept communications and try to take control of the Internet... More

Twitter ordered to identify anti-Semitic tweeters in France

25 Jan, 2013, 11:36 am IST Social Networking

A French court on Thursday ordered Twitter Inc to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic posts or face fines of 1,000 euros per day... More

Man booked for objectionable Facebook post

23 Jan, 2013, 9:30 am IST Social Networking

A 23-year-old man in Odisha's Sundergarh district was booked for posting objectionable content on social networking site Facebook... More

Is freedom of expression under threat in digital age?

16 Jan, 2013, 5:28 pm IST Social Networking

With social networking site Facebook boasting of 1 billion members globally and micro-blogging site Twitter claiming millions, opinion was divided on whether the freedom of expression was under threat in the digital age. More

Twitter uproar causes Vodafone to unblock Wordpress in Mumbai

22 Dec, 2012, 6:18 pm IST tech2 News Staff ISPs 1 Comments

On Wednesday, Vodafone lifted a four month old blanket block it had put on the free WordPress domain (www.wordpress.com) on its 2G and 3G mobile networks in Mumbai. More

Iran launches 'Mehr', its own 'YouTube'

10 Dec, 2012, 4:38 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services

Iran has launched its own video-sharing website in response to the globally popular YouTube. Called Mehr, or affection in Farsi, the site aims to bring together the Persian-speaking members on the Internet... More

The Google Transparency Report and India

04 Dec, 2012, 12:10 pm IST Rohini Lakshane Web services 1 Comments

An analysis of government surveillance and censorship in India as manifested in the Google Transparency Report for the consolidated reporting period July 2010 - July 2012. More

Syrian Internet largely restored after blackout

03 Dec, 2012, 10:33 am IST Web services

Internet and telephone service were restored across much of Syria on Saturday following a two-day, nationwide communications blackout that came ... More

Internet service goes out across Syria

30 Nov, 2012, 11:47 am IST Web services

Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility ... More

Free speech online? Think again

24 Nov, 2012, 11:54 am IST Priyanka Tilve Web services 1 Comments

Voicing your dissent or being a smart alec in the virtual world, as recent incidents have proved, could have legal consequences. More

Reliance Netconnect blocks Wikipedia in TN and Karnataka for 5 days

21 Nov, 2012, 9:39 am IST Rohini Lakshane Web services 2 Comments

Reliance Netconnect, the mobile CDMA broadband service of Reliance Communications, had blocked Wikipedia across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from November 15 to November 20. More

Google Transparency Report points to rising govt surveillance

15 Nov, 2012, 11:38 am IST Anuradha Shetty Web services

Google recently shared data as part of its Transparency Report, complete with infiormation on government requests they received from January to June 2012. More

ISPs continue to block Blogspot, Wordpress

20 Oct, 2012, 4:54 pm IST Rohini Lakshane Web services 7 Comments

Internet service provider Airtel had blocked the Blogspot domain on fixed line and mobile Internet connections in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai from Sunday to midnight yesterday. More

Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film

08 Oct, 2012, 6:07 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services 1 Comments

Citing objectionable content, Pakistani authorities have blocked user access to about 20,000 websites, including YouTube. More

Iran unblocks Gmail, plans additional censorship for YouTube

01 Oct, 2012, 6:57 pm IST Ramkumar Iyer Web services 1 Comments

Iran has lifted the block on Gmail it put in place on September 24. However, the AFP reports that this is only because the country aims to set up additional... More

More countries restrict Internet to stifle critics - report

25 Sep, 2012, 10:26 am IST Web services 1 Comments

Government restrictions on the Internet have risen over the past year around the world as regimes use violence against bloggers and turn to censorship ... More

Iran cuts access to Google Search and Gmail

24 Sep, 2012, 2:34 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services 1 Comments

Iranians’ access to Google search and Gmail has been cut, as announced by the state television. Although... More

Google Autocomplete censors The Pirate Bay

11 Sep, 2012, 12:08 pm IST Ramkumar Iyer Web services 1 Comments

You will no longer be able to see Autocomplete suggestions or use Google Instant when you type in 'The Pirate Bay' in Google. Google started More