Category Archives: Privacy

e-authentication framework for Government projects

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, GOI (DeitY) has released a document called “e-Pramaan: Framework for e-Authentication”. This is intended to serve as the guiding document for all Central and State Ministries, departments and government agencies for implementing an … Continue reading →

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Facebook to introduce “Paid Message Delivery”

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Facebook has started an test for delivering messages to Facebook users from people other than public against payment of money. Refer here I see an advantage in the service to deliver legal notices to the Facebook users who might have … Continue reading →

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Instagram service rules changed

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Instagram is a service which is supposed to make sharing of mobile pictures on Social networking sites easy. However the privacy rules attached to the service had raised a ruckus recently as it was felt that the private photographs shared … Continue reading →

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“Photo Sync” from Facebook-A New Threat to Privacy

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 4: Facebook has introduced a new feature called “Photo Sync” for mobile users which is likely to be a new threat to privacy to casual users. If enabled, the feature will automatically upload the photographs from the mobile to Face … Continue reading →

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Julian Assange on Internet Freedom

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 3: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange speaks of how an infrastructure for total control of Internet is already in place and is beig also used partially. … Details