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Jun 14, 2021 New rules leave social media users vulnerable: Experts — Krupa Joseph
May 31, 2021 Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media — Amber Sinha
Jan 22, 2021 TIkTok: It’s time for Biden to make a decision on his digital policy with China — Aman Nair
Dec 31, 2020 Twitter's India troubles show tough path ahead for digital platforms — Aditya Sharma
Dec 31, 2020 Interoperability and Portability as a Lever to Enhance User Choice and Privacy in Messaging Platforms — Kamesh Shekar
Oct 31, 2019 CIS’ Comments to the Christchurch Call — Tanaya Rajwade, Elonnai Hickok and Raouf Kundil Peedikayil
Mar 07, 2019 Seminar on “Evolution of communication: Social Media & Beyond” — Admin
Oct 28, 2018 Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say experts — Admin
Oct 28, 2018 Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: Survey — Admin
Aug 27, 2018 Centre draws red lines for Whatsapp over fake news, says must comply with Indian laws — Admin
Jul 25, 2018 WhatsApp races against time to fix fake news mess ahead of 2019 general elections — Admin
Jun 26, 2018 'Full belief in fake texts shows cops not trusted' — Admin
Jun 12, 2018 Why NPCI and Facebook need urgent regulatory attention — Sunil Abraham
Jun 01, 2018 Allow admins to add users to online group chats only after permission: SFLC.in — Admin
May 31, 2018 Election Experiment Proves Facebook Just Doesn't Care About Fake News In India — Admin
May 02, 2018 Now, Twitter too caught up in Cambridge Analytica controversy — Admin
Apr 23, 2018 What’s up with WhatsApp? — Aayush Rathi and Sunil Abraham
Apr 17, 2018 Is This The Beginning Of The End For Facebook? — Admin
Apr 08, 2018 Digital Native: Delete Facebook? — Nishant Shah
Mar 28, 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal: How India can save democracy from Facebook — Sunil Abraham
Mar 27, 2018 Data Breach: How will the biggest scandal that Facebook is mired in affect its credibility in India? — Admin
Mar 25, 2018 Is Facebook too powerful without legal safeguards? — Admin
May 20, 2017 Suicide videos: Facebook beefs up team to monitor content — Prasad Krishna
May 19, 2017 A 13-year-old's rape in TN highlights the major threat online sexual grooming poses to children — Prasad Krishna
May 19, 2017 Faking it on WhatsApp: How India's favourite messaging app is turning into a rumour mill — Prasad Krishna
May 04, 2017 Kashmir: Telecom firms struggle to block 22 banned social media sites — Prasad Krishna
May 04, 2017 J&K social media ban: Use of 132-year-old Act can’t stand judicial scrutiny, say experts — Prasad Krishna
Apr 27, 2017 India bans social media in Kashmir for one month — Prasad Krishna
Apr 07, 2017 Bengaluru cops' twitter handle in ethical storm — Prasad Krishna
Feb 24, 2017 LinkedIn will help people in India train for semi-skilled jobs — Prasad Krishna
Feb 02, 2017 India WhatsApp Privacy Fight May Affect Multinationals — Prasad Krishna
Jan 25, 2017 For India’s complaints department, visit Facebook Live — Prasad Krishna
Jan 17, 2017 Supreme Court issues notice to WhatsApp, Centre on data privacy — Prasad Krishna
Jan 13, 2017 Social Media Monitoring — Amber Sinha
Dec 31, 2016 India’s ruling party takes online abuse to a professional level — Prasad Krishna
Dec 17, 2016 The Curious Case of Poor Security in the Indian Twitterverse — Udbhav Tiwari
Dec 15, 2016 ISIS and Recruitment using Social Media – Roundtable Report — Vidushi Marda, Aditya Tejas, Megha Nambiar and Japreet Grewal
Nov 24, 2016 Caught in a filter bubble — Prasad Krishna
Nov 18, 2016 How The U.K. Got A Better Deal From Facebook Than India Did — Prasad Krishna
Nov 15, 2016 Google, Facebook will not place ads on sites distributing fake news — Prasad Krishna
Oct 30, 2016 Behind Modi’s Heartwarming Diwali Ad for Soldiers, An App That’s Primed for Political Messaging — Prasad Krishna
Oct 16, 2016 Here is why government twitter handles have been posting offensive and partisan messages — Prasad Krishna
Oct 14, 2016 Tech companies like Gmail, WhatsApp may be asked to store user information — Prasad Krishna
Oct 06, 2016 Services like TwitterSeva aren’t the silver bullets they are made out to be — Sunil Abraham
Sep 27, 2016 WhatsApp ruling: Experts seek privacy law — Prasad Krishna
Sep 25, 2016 When the war’s on WhatsApp — Prasad Krishna
Sep 06, 2016 Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime? — Subhashish Panigrahi
Sep 01, 2016 Talking Point: Futile Battle Against Torrents — Prasad Krishna
Aug 31, 2016 We Truly are the Product being Sold — Vidushi Marda
Aug 26, 2016 Festival scan on social media — Prasad Krishna
Aug 07, 2016 Do I Want to Say Happy B’day? — Nishant Shah
Jul 30, 2016 It's That Eavesdrop Endemic — Prasad Krishna
Jul 13, 2016 Tamil Nadu likely to hold Facebook accountable for suicide case — Prasad Krishna
Jul 07, 2016 FB & Google have already monopolised Indian cyberspace — Prasad Krishna
Apr 23, 2016 Will Facebook, Twitter relocate servers to India? — Prasad Krishna
Apr 21, 2016 You will need a license to create a WhatsApp group in Kashmir — Prasad Krishna
Apr 20, 2016 2014 showed the power of Twitter, now every Indian politician wants a handle — Prasad Krishna
Apr 09, 2016 Daunting task ahead for investigative agencies with WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption — Prasad Krishna
Feb 28, 2016 Why the Internet is Making India Furious — Prasad Krishna
Feb 28, 2016 India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO model — Prasad Krishna
Feb 23, 2016 Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing — Subhashish Panigrahi
Feb 15, 2016 Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networks — Prasad Krishna
Feb 15, 2016 Zuckerberg's Plan Spurned as India Backs Full Net Neutrality — Prasad Krishna
Feb 15, 2016 Facebook’s Free Basics hits snag in India — Prasad Krishna
Feb 15, 2016 Internet Freedom — Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
Feb 14, 2016 Linking Facebook use to free top-up data — Prasad Krishna
Feb 11, 2016 India Sets Strict New Net Neutrality Rules — Prasad Krishna
Feb 11, 2016 Facebook's Fall from Grace: Arab Spring to Indian Winter — Sunil Abraham
Feb 10, 2016 India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poor — Prasad Krishna
Feb 04, 2016 A Megacorp’s Basic Instinct — Prasad Krishna
Feb 03, 2016 India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook — Prasad Krishna
Jan 31, 2016 Facebook’s Fight to Be Free — Prasad Krishna
Jan 11, 2016 Will India win net neutrality battle? — Prasad Krishna
Jan 09, 2016 Facebook Free Basics: Gatekeeping Powers Extend to Manipulating Public Discourse — Vidushi Marda
Jan 07, 2016 Facebook Free Basics vs Net Neutrality: The top arguments in the debate — Prasad Krishna
Jan 06, 2016 Zuckerberg's India Backlash Imperils Free Global Web Vision — Prasad Krishna
Jan 06, 2016 Nasscom against differential pricing for data services — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2016 Facebook’s Free Basics Shuts Down In Egypt, Continuing Troubled Run — Prasad Krishna
Dec 30, 2015 Mark Zuckerberg’s India backlash imperils vision for free global web — Prasad Krishna
Dec 30, 2015 India’s net neutrality debate is unique and complex — Prasad Krishna
Dec 30, 2015 Millions of Indians Slam Facebook's ‘Free Basics’ App — Subhashish Panigrahi
Dec 30, 2015 Foreign Media on Zuckerberg's India Backlash — Prasad Krishna
Dec 29, 2015 Facebook goes out all guns blazing in push for Free Basics, Net neutrality advocates cry foul — Prasad Krishna
Dec 29, 2015 Start-up India turns the heat on Facebook Free Basics — Prasad Krishna
Dec 26, 2015 A Scam Masquerading as Santa — Prasad Krishna
Nov 26, 2015 Tulu Wikipedia Tutorial — Prasad Krishna
Nov 25, 2015 Gauging Users' Reactions Towards Zero Rating — Aadya Misra
Oct 29, 2015 Net advocacy body probing linkages between telcos and Facebook’s auto-play video option — Prasad Krishna
Oct 18, 2015 Digital India: Did Modi get it wrong in Silicon Valley? — Prasad Krishna
Oct 18, 2015 How To Win Friends, FB Style — Prasad Krishna
Oct 11, 2015 Modi's Valley hug sparks swadeshi talk — Prasad Krishna
Oct 08, 2015 The Legal Validity of Internet Bans: Part II — Geetha Hariharan and Padmini Baruah
Oct 08, 2015 The Legal Validity of Internet Bans: Part I — Geetha Hariharan and Padmini Baruah
Sep 29, 2015 Facebook’s Free Internet Access Program in Developing Countries Provokes Backlash — Prasad Krishna
Sep 29, 2015 What Bengaluru Thinks of the Big Tech Announcements in Silicon Valley — Prasad Krishna
Sep 26, 2015 Ahead of hosting Modi, Facebook rebrands internet.org as Free Basics — Prasad Krishna
Sep 24, 2015 Huge outcry forces India to backtrack on social media data proposal — Prasad Krishna
Sep 20, 2015 Outrage before sharing — Prasad Krishna
Jul 16, 2015 Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi — Sarah McKeever
Jul 01, 2015 WhatsApp and the Creation of a Transnational Sociality — Maitrayee Deka
Jun 30, 2015 WhatsApp and Transnational Lower-End Trading Networks — Maitrayee Deka
Feb 25, 2015 Delhi government in consultation with Centre to block Uber's Internet address — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2015 India 'jihadi' web blocking causes anger — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2015 Govt cracks down on cyber jehad network, blocks access to 32 websites — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2015 Minds that (should) matter — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2015 Indian Government still blocks 20+ websites – Indian Censorship on Internet — Prasad Krishna
Jan 03, 2015 Pastebin, Dailymotion, Github blocked after DoT order: Report — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 Government blocks over 60 websites including github & sourceforge on anti-terror advisory — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 Govt blocks 32 websites, including Vimeo and Github — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 Internet users fume as govt blocks 32 sites — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 Centre blocks 32 websites for security reasons, restores some later — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 DoT Reportedly Orders Blocking of 32 Websites Including GitHub, Archive.org, SourceForge — Prasad Krishna
Jan 02, 2015 Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin Among Sites Blocked In India For 'Anti-India' Content From ISIS — Prasad Krishna
Oct 09, 2014 Is India the next frontier for Facebook? — Prasad Krishna
Aug 04, 2014 We the goondas — Prasad Krishna
Jul 28, 2014 The trouble with trolls — Prasad Krishna
Jul 18, 2014 Terror recruiters target Indians on internet — Prasad Krishna
Jul 07, 2014 FOEX Live — Geetha Hariharan
Jul 04, 2014 Facebook and its Aversion to Anonymous and Pseudonymous Speech — Jessamine Mathew
Jul 03, 2014 Cyber crimes shoot up 52% in India over last year — Prasad Krishna
Jul 02, 2014 Reading the Fine Script: Service Providers, Terms and Conditions and Consumer Rights — Jyoti Panday
Jun 24, 2014 FOEX Live: June 16-23, 2014 — Geetha Hariharan
Jun 19, 2014 UN Human Rights Council urged to protect human rights online — Geetha Hariharan
Jun 16, 2014 Vodafone Report Explains Government Access to Customer Data — Joe Sheehan
Jun 16, 2014 FOEX Live: June 8-15, 2014 — Geetha Hariharan
Jun 12, 2014 Stay connected even when you go underground — Prasad Krishna
Jun 07, 2014 FOEX Live: June 1-7, 2014 — Geetha Hariharan
May 29, 2014 FOEX Live: May 28-29, 2014 — Geetha Hariharan
May 27, 2014 FOEX Live: May 26-27, 2014 — Geetha Hariharan
May 21, 2014 Students lead the way with apps for ideas — Prasad Krishna
May 14, 2014 European Court of Justice rules Internet Search Engine Operator responsible for Processing Personal Data Published by Third Parties — Jyoti Panday
May 06, 2014 Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get — Nishant Shah
Apr 26, 2014 Facebook launches FB Newswire for journalists; loses part of its immunity under IT Act 2000 — Prasad Krishna
Apr 14, 2014 Lok sabha polls: Social media companies launch special pages for polls — Prasad Krishna
Apr 03, 2014 The politics of Facebook — Prasad Krishna
Mar 31, 2014 India's social media election battle — Prasad Krishna
Mar 30, 2014 The Age of Shame — Nishant Shah
Mar 21, 2014 No to homosexuals, yes to their vote — Prasad Krishna
Mar 12, 2014 When politics gets social — Prasad Krishna
Mar 08, 2014 Girls just wanna have... a voice — Prasad Krishna
Mar 05, 2014 India’s ballot battle will also run through Facebook — Prasad Krishna
Mar 05, 2014 ‘Mobile’ voters may sway polls — Prasad Krishna
Feb 27, 2014 India ‘tea parties’ enable politicians to woo urban youth with technology — Prasad Krishna
Feb 18, 2014 Will You be Paid to Post a Picture? — Nishant Shah
Feb 04, 2014 The Dangers Of Birdsong — Prasad Krishna
Jan 30, 2014 Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom — Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan
Jan 24, 2014 The net is taking over — Prasad Krishna
Jan 19, 2014 Social Notworking - 'Murder by Twitter' — Prasad Krishna
Jan 07, 2014 Digital Citizens: Why Cyber Security and Online Privacy are Vital to the Success of Democracy and Freedom of Expression — Prasad Krishna
Jan 05, 2014 Rise of the bot: all you need to know about the latest threat online — Prasad Krishna
Dec 27, 2013 Indian government wakes up to risk of Hotmail, Gmail — Prasad Krishna
Dec 22, 2013 Digital Native — Nishant Shah
Dec 05, 2013 International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice (IV) — Prasad Krishna
Dec 04, 2013 A Three-Way Race Draws Delhi’s Young, and Everyone Else, Out to Vote — Prasad Krishna
Nov 30, 2013 I Just Pinged to Say Hello — Nishant Shah
Nov 30, 2013 When the virtual world wakes up the real one — Prasad Krishna
Nov 30, 2013 Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project — Denisse Albornoz
Nov 25, 2013 Election Commission to monitor conduct of political parties on Facebook, Twitter and Google — Prasad Krishna
Nov 20, 2013 YouTube is the answer to what has changed in India — Prasad Krishna
Nov 14, 2013 Social media promotions can backfire, too — Prasad Krishna
Nov 01, 2013 EC guidelines on social media: Welcome move, but not enough — Prasad Krishna
Oct 23, 2013 Indian politicians yet to tap voters online: CIS’s Abraham — Prasad Krishna
Oct 13, 2013 The quest for genuine clout on the internet — Prasad Krishna
Oct 11, 2013 Fragmentation in a Democracy : The Role of Social Movements and the Media — Prasad Krishna
Oct 08, 2013 Google survey: 37% of urban Indian voters are online — Prasad Krishna
Aug 26, 2013 Election campaign: parties draw battle lines on media platforms — Prasad Krishna
Aug 19, 2013 How Next-Gen Smartphone Users are Being Bought and Sold — Prasad Krishna
Aug 08, 2013 Facebook: Limiting access to social media can restrict freedom of speech — Prasad Krishna
Jul 22, 2013 You Have the Right to Remain Silent — Nishant Shah
Jul 18, 2013 सावधान आपके प्रोफ़ाइल पर है पुलिस की नज़र! — Prasad Krishna
Apr 16, 2013 Untangling the web of India's 'ungovernable' Net — Prasad Krishna
Apr 15, 2013 Social media may influence 160 LS seats in 2014 — Prasad Krishna
Apr 15, 2013 Vote: Will Social Media Impact the Election? — Prasad Krishna
Apr 15, 2013 Regulating Social Media: Unrealistic, Impossible, Necessary? — Prasad Krishna
Mar 21, 2013 Reply to RTI Application on Blocking of website and Rule 419A of Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951 — Prasad Krishna
Mar 19, 2013 Indian police set up lab to monitor social media — Prasad Krishna
Mar 06, 2013 Social media undermining journalistic credibility? — Prasad Krishna
Mar 04, 2013 Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ Hangout — Prasad Krishna
Feb 16, 2013 Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked URLs by Department of Telecommunications (IIPM Edition) — Snehashish Ghosh
Jan 07, 2013 Clash of the cyberworlds — Prasad Krishna
Dec 31, 2012 The year social media came of age in India — Prasad Krishna
Dec 31, 2012 Delhi gang rape: What Facebook, Twitter expose about govt — Prasad Krishna
Dec 14, 2012 Hacktivists deface BSNL website — Prasad Krishna
Dec 12, 2012 Ayodhya trending on Twitter sparks censorship concerns — Prasad Krishna
Dec 05, 2012 Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech — Sunil Abraham
Dec 02, 2012 So Much to Lose — Nishant Shah
Nov 30, 2012 Interview with Pranesh Prakash — Prasad Krishna
Nov 30, 2012 Govt tweaks enforcement of IT Act after spate of arrests — Prasad Krishna
Nov 30, 2012 Thousands go online against 66A — Prasad Krishna
Nov 24, 2012 Draft nonsense — Pranesh Prakash
Nov 21, 2012 Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook — Prasad Krishna
Nov 02, 2012 On social media, Modi goes soft — Prasad Krishna
Sep 27, 2012 Pitroda seeks to put govt information in public domain — Prasad Krishna
Sep 27, 2012 Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart — Prasad Krishna
Sep 25, 2012 Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II — Snehashish Ghosh
Sep 05, 2012 Political war on the web — Prasad Krishna
Sep 05, 2012 Need a standard strategy to deal with Web issues: Chandrasekhar — Prasad Krishna
Sep 04, 2012 Government to hold talks with stakeholders on Internet censorship — Prasad Krishna
Sep 04, 2012 Is the govt caught in the 'censorship' web? — Prasad Krishna
Sep 03, 2012 Facebook's Delicate Dance With Delhi On Censorship — Prasad Krishna
Sep 03, 2012 The state. And the rage of the cyber demon — Prasad Krishna
Sep 03, 2012 India Blocks Facebook, Twitter, Mass Texts in Response to Unrest — Prasad Krishna
Sep 03, 2012 Tata Photon unblocks Wordpress.com — Prasad Krishna
Sep 02, 2012 Watch out for fettered speech — Prasad Krishna
Aug 28, 2012 Details emerge on government blockade of websites — Prasad Krishna
Aug 28, 2012 Indian government defends Internet blocking — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 India Blocks News Website Pages for 'Spreading Fear' over Assam Violence — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 Blocked websites: Where India flawed — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'? — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 Internet clamp outrage — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 Criticism mounts over India censorship — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 India threatens action against Twitter for ethnic violence 'rumors' — Prasad Krishna
Aug 27, 2012 India Bans Mass SMS to Counter Panic — Prasad Krishna
Aug 26, 2012 Some ISPs block Wordpress domain across India — Prasad Krishna
Aug 26, 2012 After Violence in India, a Crackdown Online — Prasad Krishna
Aug 25, 2012 Internet expert criticizes Indian cyber blockades — Prasad Krishna
Aug 23, 2012 Government asks Twitter to block fake 'PMO India' accounts; site fails to respond — Prasad Krishna
Aug 23, 2012 India limits social media after civil unrest — Prasad Krishna
Aug 23, 2012 Northeast exodus: Is there a mechanism to pre-screen social media content? — Prasad Krishna
Aug 23, 2012 India Debates Misuse of Social Media — Prasad Krishna
Aug 22, 2012 Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition) — Pranesh Prakash
Aug 22, 2012 Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic — Prasad Krishna
Dec 15, 2011 Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen — Pranesh Prakash
Dec 07, 2011 Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical — Pranesh Prakash
Sep 15, 2011 Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? — Nishant Shah
Feb 11, 2011 Diving Into the Digital — Maesy Angelina
Jun 08, 2010 Survey : Digital Natives with a cause? — pushpa
Mar 01, 2010 India Game Developer Summit Bangalore 2010 — Arun Menon
Jan 15, 2010 Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives — Nishant Shah
Jan 13, 2010 Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India* — Nishant Shah
Nov 19, 2009 open video summit — Radha Rao
Sep 21, 2009 China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai — Nishant Shah
Jun 24, 2009 Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A Report — Sanchia de Souza
Jun 22, 2009 Using Social Media for Mobilisation: Discussion with Dina Mehta and Peter Griffin — Sanchia de Souza