Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

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 →

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 →

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 →