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All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled Protecting Your Information. It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Man puts girl photos on FB without her nod, booked

The girl immediately approached the Vasant Kunj (south) police on April 24 and lodged a complaint in this regard.

26 April 2018 5:30 AM IST

he first thing to do on detecting fraudulent transactions is to report them to your card issuer immediately to block your card from further misuse.

Thane: Man loses Rs 75,000 to phishing fraud in the name of 'Aadhar...

Kopri police have registered a case under the Information Technology Act and relevant sections of the IPC.

7 April 2018 10:43 AM IST

Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and GitHub have written an open letter to the Union minister of electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Tech firms write to Centre over changes in IT rules

As per the proposed amendments social media firms will have to enable investigative agencies to trace originatorâ€ of...

1 Feb 2019 1:12 AM IST

Supreme Court of India. (Photo: PTI)

Centre in SC justifies order over snooping'

There is no blanket permission to any agency and in each case the due procedure and process of law should be followed.

2 March 2019 3:16 AM IST

The accused has been arrested. (Representational Image)

Actor's spouse arrested for harassment

The police arrested 38-year-old Abhinav Gohil after she lodged a complaint that he was abusing their daughter.

12 Aug 2019 3:07 AM IST

The algorithms have been released on Github and Facebook hopes that developers and other companies will make use of it to identify harmful content.

Why social media guidelines?

Fake news factories are now being set up on both sides of the ideological fence.

26 Sept 2019 12:23 AM IST

The Supreme Court early this month issued a notice to the Centre on the use of Section 66A of the IT Act and said that it was shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now. (AA file photo)

MHA asks states to order cops not to register cases under scrapped...

Recently, the SC had said that it was shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now

14 July 2021 11:57 PM IST

The home ministry said late on Thursday the agencies could intercept, monitor and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer under an Information Technology Act.

India empowers agencies to snoop on computers; critics decry...

They would need approval from the senior-most civil servant in the interior ministry to carry out such surveillance.

22 Dec 2018 3:52 PM IST

Couples who are honest about porn viewing also benefit (Photo: AFP)

Accused of being impotent, Hyderabad man makes porn video and sends to...

The 32-year-old man from Hyderabad was arrested recently, police said on Wednesday.

1 Aug 2018 7:21 PM IST

Wrapping up his two-day visit to Varanasi, Modi said the work done in the city is clearly visible, noting its landscape has changed for good in the last four years while it was at the mercy of God under previous governments. (Photo: Twitter | @PIB_India)

Case against Facebook user for sharing morphed image of PM Modi

The picture shows PM Modi wearing a skull cap while greeting people at a program of the Dawoodi Bohra community in...

22 Sept 2018 8:01 AM IST

Criminals fabricate copy of FIR to secure regular bail by manipulating the software of the Patna high court in a case of economic offence of 2012. (Representational image)

Criminals forge judicial papers, hoodwink FIRs

Cyber experts believe breach of judicial data poses a question mark over the security of sensitive documents available...

13 Feb 2017 1:16 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: File)

Kolkata: Cyber adjudicator fines man for spying on wife's mobile phone

The man denied all allegations during the hearings before the adjudicator, claiming the complaint was false and...

21 April 2017 4:54 PM IST