Pause before tapping ‘Yes’

Now that it is feared that our data on PM Modi’s app has landed on foreign shores, the citizens should be told what happened. We consumers, too, have a responsibility: think before agreeing to the terms of those cool apps. Roopinder Singh Free comes at the cost of freedom. Never has this been as apparent as nowadays, ever since Cambridge …

Cracker of the code

Book review by Roopinder Singh She was seen as a saviour of a company that was a giant when the Internet age dawned in the mid-1990s. Yahoo was still huge in 2012, but seemed antediluvian as younger companies proved to be more in sync with the manner in which people used the net. The new kid on the block was …