Javed Anwer

Losing access to the Indian market may not turn out to be a big deal for Twitter.

For years, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook turned a blind eye to everything the ultra-right and Trumpists did on the platform. All in the name of free speech.

While the world is balancing privacy and public health even in this difficult time, the Indian government's Aarogya Setu app is emulating Chinese government's all-controlling, all-tracking system.

The country lives from moment to moment, without forming a memory, without contemplating the past or the future.

News flash: Conversation, as we know it, is dead and there is nothing we can do about it. The culprit through, is someone we all love and adore.

Much has been theorised about how big tech and social media have disrupted societies across the world. The aftermath of Pulwama is this theory demonstrated in practice.

Interactive videos may turn out to be mindless fun and good entertainment, but they may also enable a kind of dystopia that will go beyond even the ones imagined in sci-fi novels.

The internet remembers every click we make and then uses the information to define you and me.

The interactivity offered by this episode of 'Black Mirror' on Netflix is overbearing.

The problem is that our belief in the goodness of technology blindsided us to the devil inside us humans.

Ahead of 2019 polls, India needs to be prepared for 'hackers' looking to meddle with its internal politics.

With immediate effect, banks and telecom companies have to stop asking people for their Aadhaar numbers or conduct e-KYC based on Aadhaar.

The dissent by Justice DY Chandrachud in today's verdict recognises the perils of Aadhaar well.

Brutal lynchings fuelled by rumours spread via unrestricted WhatsApp in India is making the Chinese model of tight control on internet and messaging look good.

Selfish as it is in its privacy push, the tech giant is looking at greater good.

A success story unlike any other.

At I/O 2018, Google demoed Duplex, a new kind of AI that will talk to people on behalf of its human masters in a very human-like manner.

Let there be no confusion that Aadhaar is a surveillance technology for all practical purposes.

After how people have used FB data to undermine democratic processes, Indian regulators cannot be seen working with the firm.

Face scanning is more expensive, more difficult to do and arguably less secure and robust than fingerprint scanning.

This conversation needs to be happen now because in 2019 we will be voting in the general election.

The only way to end the UID tyranny is to throw it out.

The results are not going to be pretty.

A rather unusual choice for a national dish in a country full of eateries serving kababs, koftas and, ahem, grilled pigeons stuffed with rice.

Behind every friendly face, behind every smile, there is a motive.

Even in mature democracies, only the legislature is democratic. The executive and judiciary aren't.

If party leaders say they were not warned about Aadhaar, they are lying.

They derive too much power from the networking site.

I don't understand what is the more frightening part here.

Since there is no proper procedure in the country for internet practices, the list of websites you can’t access in India has only grown.