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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicOnline safety

Topic: Online safety

Children can’t be monitored 24/7 anymore. Parents must focus on autonomy, safe spaces

YouTube Kids and online gaming is not as safe as parents think. Online predators lurk on these platforms. Parents must stay alert.

Tinder’s dating class at St. Xavier’s Mumbai is swiped right — consent, safety, relationships

Top-5 red flags include asking for intimate pics, making fun of a person’s beliefs, shutting oneself down, lack of empathy, and choosing to chat over the phone.

85% Indian kids have experienced cyberbullying, highest in the world, finds new survey

The McAfee Corp's report found the number of Indian children reported to have cyberbullied someone is also twice the international average.

Children’s online safety is in jeopardy. Smart toys with AI algorithms are a threat

Research suggests that the global market share of smart toys will grow by 26%. But their AI connectivity poses an ethical challenge.

A phone from makers of Pegasus spyware & other ways to protect your phone from hacking

There is no method that can fully guarantee that your phone will never be attacked by malware, but there are ways to strengthen your device protections.

Why paying hackers a ransom for your data isn’t the best idea

New Delhi: The pandemic year 2020 was unprecedented on many counts. Chief among them is how much of the world moved online entirely —...

CBI seizes assets worth Rs 190 cr during searches against 6 firms booked in tech support scam

CBI is collaborating with US & other countries' authorities against fraudsters who allegedly took remote control of computers by sending a pop-up message of malware presence.

No Google, we did not agree to share this information

More than a decade into era of prevalent social networks & smartphones, people still can’t make informed choices about how to safely conduct their lives online.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

As IDF unveils robotic combat task force, Israeli maker says open to working with India

Using this technology, IDF carried out fully robotic combat missions, drastically reducing risk to Israeli troops. The robotic combat task force also enhanced situational awareness.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.