Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

The case of M G Gokul, a techie in Bangalore who has been arrested for sending hoax messages through WhatsApp to Bangalore and New Delhi airports suggesting that bombs have been placed on 6 flights causing an estimated $ 1 … Continue reading →

The recent circular from the Maharashtra Government explaining the law of “Sedition” as mentioned in Section 124A of IPC has opened up a debate rightly in how the law can be misused. Refer here for more information For records the … Continue reading →

There are no two opinions on the fact that the stake of society in general and corporate entities in particular on data is on the increase. Companies are investing a lot of their money to create data assets and part … Continue reading →

Police in the field seems to be the most effective teachers for the Supreme Court. When Police in Maharashtra and Pondicherry booked cases under Section 66A (of ITA 2000/8) for publishing content on FaceBook and Twitter, Supreme Court judges learnt … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →