Monthly Archives: August 2015

“Cyber Flashing” exposes the Error of Judgement on scrapping of Section 66A

The new cyber crime reported from UK where a women has complained of unsolicited obscene image being flashed on her iPhone has once again highlighted why the scrapping of Section 66A was an erroneous judgement of the Supreme Court of … Continue reading

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Case of Blind leading the Blind-Cyber Crime Statistics from NCRB

Yesterday, there were preliminary reports about the Cyber Crime statistics released by NCRB for 2014. This is a set of statistics gathered by collating the data from different state level police. Today some enthusiastic journalists have started writing their analytical … Continue reading

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Bangalore is the Cyber Crime Capital of India?

According to the recent NCRB data on cyber crimes released, Bangalore is reported to be the leading metro with 675 cases being registered under ITA 2008. Refer article in Hindu Hyderabad stood second with 386 cases followed by Jaipur and … Continue reading

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How naive can journalists in Hindustan Times get?

Hindustan Times is considered a news paper with a history. With the years of experience should have come certain maturity in journalism and principles of ethics. But one doubts if Hindustan Times editor had any inkling of what the article published today … Continue reading

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DomainX 2015 conference in Bangalore and Emerging scenario of “domaineering”

Bangalore saw a congregation of enthusiastic domain investors on August 7th and 8th in the second DomainX conference  in India, held at Taj WestEnd. There were several international participants and also from across the country demonstrating a growing interest in … Continue reading

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Supreme Court admits Section 66A is necessary. Naavi.org view vindicated

We refer to the various articles published in this forum (Refer here) on the judgement in the Shreya Singhal Case in which the honourable Supreme Court bench of Justices, F.Nariman and J. Chelmeshwar on 24th March 2015 held that Section … Continue reading

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