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The recent faux pas committed by the Department of IT, Government of India in publishing a half-baked policy as the “Draft National Encryption Policy” created a needless controversy on the topic of “Encryption Policy” itself and whether it was required or … Continue reading →

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the Indian Bar Association (IBA) organized a conference in Bangalore on 23rd September 2015 and discussed several aspects related to Privacy in the emerging Digital India. Eminent speakers from the industry participated … Continue reading →

After criticism that emanated over the week end on the draft National Encryption Policy that the Government released last week, Government has quickly made some clarifications. The original policy is available here We had provided our comments and suggestions on … Continue reading →

It is reported that an expert committee on Cyber crimes has amongst other things recommended an amendment to Indian Evidence Act. Ostensibly the objective is to help law enforcement agencies to tackle new generation of cyber crimes particularly the mobile … 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 →

It had been reported earlier that a Cyber Cafe owner in Pune was imprisoned for 15 days and fined for Rs 10000/-  under Section 67(C) of Information Technology Act 2000 as amended in 2008 (ITA2000/8). We now have a copy of … Continue reading →