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Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.
Praveen Chandrahas
Automation and Artificial Intelligence Triggering Massive Layoffs in IT
21 Aug 2017
From policies to technologies to activism - combating job losses has to take a multi-faceted approach in the country.
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IT Employees Say No to Retrenchment
30 Jul 2017
The crisis of the Indian IT industry has disrupted the lives of thousands and dominated headlines for months.
Prabir Purkayastha
WannaCry, Nation States and What the President of Microsoft Forgot to Mention
20 May 2017
In the wake of malware WannaCry infecting hundreds of thousands of computers using a stolen NSA hacking tool, Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft has blamed the nation-states pursuit of cyber…
Prabir Purkayastha
NSA's Hacking Tool and Wannacry Ransomware
13 May 2017
The security hole was being used by NSA for years to “capture” target systems. Did NSA not inform Microsoft of this hole, as it wanted to keep its ability to hack into such target Windows machines?…
Bipin Chandran
Heist. What Does it Mean?
08 Apr 2016
This may be the biggest heist in the history of mankind, if the Panama Tax Heaven papers are to be held on to. Let us take a look at the staggering numbers in question. Rich individuals and their…
Prabir Purkayastha
Modi's Silicon Valley Visit: Inviting Digital Colonialism for Media Hype
03 Oct 2015
Modi recently had one of his now trademark sound and light shows in the SAP Centre in Los Angeles, while visiting Silicon Valley, the home of high-tech IT industry in the US. He coupled this with…
Glenn Greenwald Courtesy: Intercept
The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
08 Sep 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China’s…
Prabir Purkayastha
The NSA and Its Corporate Partners
10 Jan 2014
The third most important set of revelations from Snowden's treasure trove of NSA documents took place last week. Der Spiegel, the leading German newspaper published a set of reports that show how…
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India to Outsource Spying on Indians to the Israelis
06 Aug 2013
At a time when the entire world is outraged to find out about USA’s secret mass surveillance program run by the NSA, the Indian government is openly and unabashedly contracting a foreign private…