Rajiv Gandhi's Name Allegedly Included in Black Money List

 

Indore | Oct 29, 2014: A Congress leader filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Prevention Squad here today about former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi's name going viral on social media alleging that it has been included among the list of people who have stashed black money in foreign banks.

"We want the police to identify those who have spread such fake messages on social media and register a criminal case against them because the image of our departed leader and party is being tarnished," the Madhya Pradesh Congress IT and Social Media Cell In-charge Dharmendra Vajpayee told PTI today.

The Centre placed a list of names of Indians having accounts in foreign banks before the Supreme Court today.

He alleged that unidentified people who are part of a conspiracy were spreading such messages on the social media stating that the list includes names of top Congress leaders who stashed away black money in foreign banks.

Meanwhile, Cyber Crime Prevention Squad In-charge Sunita Katara said that the Vajpayee's complaint is being probed and information regarding the same has been sent to the Bhopal-based Cyber Cell Headquarters.
source-outlookindia .com 

'abusive' comments against Congress leader posted on Facebook case: filed

Kerala Police have registered a case under the IT Act on a complaint that 'abusive' comments have been posted on Facebook against the state Mahila Congress chief for backing Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli gang-rape case.

The case under Section 66 A of the IT Act had been registered based on a complaint by Mahila Congress chief Bindu Krishna that abusive comments along with her picture had been posted on the social media and investigation was on, a cyber cell official of the Kerala Police said in Thiruvananthapuram.

Investigation was progressing and so far no action had been initiated against anybody, the official said.

When contacted, Krishna said she had submitted the complaint to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who forwarded it to the cyber cell for investigation.

Krishna said she was only stating the party stand on Kurien issue, but the comments that appeared in the social media were "highly defamatory" with a view to "tarnishing" her image as a woman.

"As per the information available so far, the comments were posted from a fake ID and police were trying to trace their origin. Police are in contact with Facebook authorities," Krishna said.

The comments were noticed on February 4 and by then itself more 140 people were found to have shared them, she said.

Kurien was named by the Suryanelli victim as one of those who had sexually assaulted her in 1996. The Supreme Court had exonerated the Congress leader of the charges.

The victim recently wrote to her advocate seeking to explore the possibility of filing a review plea in the Supreme Court for a fresh probe against Kurien, triggering calls for his resignation. Kurien has maintained that he had been cleared of the charges by the apex court.
source-DNA 

14-year-old girl Kidnapped, through her Facebook Friend

When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn't know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It's a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual predators find new ways to exploit Indonesia's growing obsession with social media. 

The junior high student was quickly smitten by the man's smooth online flattery. They exchanged phone numbers, and his attention increased with rapid-fire texts. He convinced her to meet in a mall, and she found him just as charming in person. 

They agreed to meet again. After telling her mom she was going to visit a sick girlfriend on her way to church choir practice, she climbed into the man's minivan near her home in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta. The man, a 24-year-old who called himself Yogi, drove her an hour to the town of Bogor, West Java, she told The Associated Press in an interview. 

There, he locked her in a small room inside a house with at least five other girls aged 14 to 17. She was drugged and raped repeatedly, losing her virginity in the first violent session. 

‘Facebook murder’: Girl killed over Facebook posts

THE HAGUE: A Dutch court on Monday jailed a teenage boy for stabbing a 15-year-old girl to death and trying to kill her father after she had allegedly posted derogatory comments about another girl on Facebook.

The boy, identified as 15-year-old Jing Hua K, was jailed for a year and ordered to spend at least two years in a psychiatric facility for the January 14 murder in the eastern city of Arnhem.

The sentence is the maximum in the Netherlands for a minor.

"The court is of the opinion the defendant deliberately killed" the girl, Joyce Hau, known as Winsie to her friends, as well as attempted to murder her father, judges said in a verdict which was posted online.

Prosecutors told the court the murder happened after Hau had had a fight on the social networking site Facebook with a 16-year-old friend, who was identified as Polly W.

Prosecutors said Polly's boyfriend, 17-year-old Wesley C then allegedly phoned and spoke to Jing Hua K via Facebook to arrange the killing, and also allegedly discussed the possibility of killing Hau's entire family.

India’s web culture is all about Facebook, social networking

ComScore, has just released some interesting data on how India’s digital citizens are spending time online. The report states that  social networking accounted for 25.2 percent of all time spent online in June. The biggest beneficiary of the social networking boom in India is, of course, Facebook.

The report also states that Indians spend nearly 1 out 4 minutes online indulging in social networking, amounting to a significant 25.2 percent of total time spent online.

Other content that occupies a significant amount of time for Indians is

• Entertainment sites – accounting for 10 percent of minutes (up 1.2 percentage points from the previous year).

• Portals accounted for 8.8 percent of total minutes.

• Time spent on Retail sites grew 0.5 points in the past year to a total of 2.0 percent of total minutes.

So which are the top used sites by Indians?

Google and other sites run by the search-engine ranked as the top destination in June 2012 reaching nearly 95 percent of the online population, or roughly 57.8 million people aged 15 and older

Facebook came in second followed with 50.9 million visitors (83.4 percent reach),

Yahoo! Sites (65.5 percent reach) and Microsoft Sites (48.1 percent reach) are next on the list.

So what does this web survey reveal about India?

The first is the tremendous rise of social networking among Indians. The second is of course the rise of Facebook. All of this is particularly noteworthy data, coming as it does at a time when the government is blaming social media aiding in the spread of rumours against North-eastern people, which led to a mass exodus of these people from various South Indian cities.

The government has alleged that Facebook, YouTube, etc were used to upload inflammatory content that led to the mass hysteria. The latest exodus is also being used by the government to bolster its argument that social networking sites ought to pre-screen content before it is uploaded.

Facebook and YouTube have added that the content was uploaded from Pakistan and have admitted that it was indeed incendiary in nature.

There’s no doubt that censorship of the web will now become a hotly contested issue with the government using the North-east as a classic example of how social media was misused.

But the larger question is that whether Indians who are evidently addicted to social networking would be okay with their online rights being curbed. Most would be uncomfortable with any sort of censorship. As far as users are concerned, the government seems to be displaying a blithe ignorance of how effective and useful social media can be.

In case of bomb attacks and accidents,  people very often turn to social media such as Twitter or Facebook,  to get more information or even reach out to those who have been affected. In July 2011 in Mumbai for instance, the Indian Twitter community took it upon themselves to offer rides and other assistance to those stranded as a result of a series of bomb explosions in the city.

Social media has also become a very effective tool of criticising the government.

For India’s online citizens, who are only over a  100 million or so in number, the battles are going to get tougher with the government arguing for more control. There’s no doubt that as far as social media concerned nobody is willing to budge an inch, neither the users nor the government.

Source-Firstpost

Facebook slapped by FTC for failing to meet security promises

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finally agreed its settlement with Facebook.

In November 2011, The FTC published its investigation findings, listing eight issues that raised privacy and security concerns.

One issue in particular seems to have caught the security media's eye.

The FTC say that Facebook invited developers to submit their apps to its verification program, which promised to review and certify that apps were secure.

Facebook of course charged developers for this service. Fees were between $175 and $375 per application submitted. The social media comonay awarded the badge to approximately 254 platform applications, according to the FTC.

Facebook received up to $95,000 USD from developers who wanted their apps certified, reported The Guardian.