Why else is every department of government directing its energy at making Indians "digitally literate", precisely at a time where people in technological societies are turning to India to learn her wisdom, her deep values of "Sarve Bhavantu Sukhna", and the ability to live in community as one Earth Family — Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam?Documents released by WikiLeaks allege a CIA heavy duty lopper Manufacturers surveillance program that targets everyday gadgets ranging from smart TVs to smartphones to cars. Both Martin and Snowden had worked for one of the top private companies working in the intelligence sector, Booz Allen Hamilton. But GM added that it knew of no injuries or death resulting from the hacking of a vehicle. For a group of people who, for such a long time, traded in earthenware and iron tools utilising their ancestral skills of a potter and a blacksmith, this new merchandise was so different that curiosity got the better of me and I ventured down to investigate and have a closer look.
The result, said security consultant Paul Rosenzweig, is "the continuing erosion in trust of and damage to the reputation to the American intelligence community.Another major leak of top secret materials has again put Americas top spies in hot water -- while delivering a coup for anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.But major leaks have not all come from contractors. Id think twice before giving anything to the Americans.Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all.SIDESTEPPING ENCRYPTIONWikiLeaks claims the hacks allowed the CIA to collect audio and other messages from data-scrambling communication apps such as WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Confide by intercepting data before it is encrypted or after its decoded.The foundation of the real economy is work.Instead, WikiLeaks claims, the CIA held on to the knowledge in order to conduct a variety of attacks.
Relations have been fraught since 2013, when former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden disclosed secret NSA surveillance of phone and digital communications.Two sets of means come together in what is now declared the real reason for demonetisation — the digital economy. Click on Amazon and you will get an eyeful of them. Obsolete systems are moulding our patterns of work and our wellbeing — as a very large country, and as an ancient civilisation — into a cast that is observably too small.The writer is former VP, consumer insight, McCann Erickson India. Our film heroes of the 60s and 70s barely had robust body structures, nor do we have any myths of brawny superheroes like Atlas or a Hercules. Websites such as Postcard News, an Indian version of Breitbart, have cropped up and made a successful business model out of fake news.The hoax slayers also refer to verified accounts on social media such as Twitter or Facebook. According to the now-defunct guidelines, the accreditation of a journalist would have stood cancelled if he/she would have been found to create and propagate fake news by regulating agencies.