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Woah! IT Dept Will Now Dig Your Facebook, Instagram Posts To Gain Income Data!

There are 1.3 billion people in India, but only 37 million filed tax returns and only 172,000 declared income of more than Rs 5 lakh last year. The irony is that, in the same period, 20 million Indians went abroad, 2.6 million cars were sold in India.

What does it prove?

We Indians are shy of paying taxes. But not anymore.

Income Tax Dept. has spent Rs 1000 crore to create Project Insight, which will dig into your social media accounts, find out your spending based on your posts, and force you to pay the tax.

We had reported about this initiative from Income Tax Dept. last year, which is now ready to be unleashed.

If you thought that the post about that sizzling Maldives holidays only generated ‘likes’, then think again…

Rs 1000 Crore Project Insight To Be Unleashed

Govt. of India has spent Rs 1000 crore to create a platform wherein IT Dept. will be able to link your biometric details to your online identity, and snoop out how much tax you are required to pay. The platform will even calculate your expected incomes, and expected tax which you need to pay next fiscal.

Using advanced machine learning, data mining and big data, Project Insight will map every Indian’s spending pattern, with the income generated, and find out the tax which needs to be applied.

Tax specialists are saying that data analytics is the future for tax enforcement, as it will remove ambiguity and introduce more transparency into the whole process.

Days of random raids and checks by Income Tax Dept. is now over, as Project Insight will pinpoint individuals based on exact data and evidence, and compel them to pay the applicable tax.

Project Insight Inspired By UK’s Connect?

In 2010, UK implemented their own version of discovering hidden tax payers in the form of ‘Connect’, which was developed at an expenditure of 100 million pounds.

As per a report from London-based Institute of Financial Accountants, Connect has been able to prevent income tax loss to the tune of 4.1 billion pounds till date, and the number of criminal prosecutions have increased to 1165/year from 165/year before Connect.

Now, let’s see how much tax Project Insight is able to extract in India.

Three Stages Of Project Insight

L&T Infotech has been working on the technical aspects of Project Insight since quite some time. As per L&T Infotech chief executive officer and managing director Sanjay Jalona, for first few months, L&T will deploy the software and the techniques on their own end, and help IT Dept. to snoop on social media users and extract their spending to find out the applicable tax.

Later, they will transfer the technology to the Govt.

Basically, there shall be three stages in Project Insight:

Stage 1: All income tax declarations of Indian citizens – credit card spends, investments, stocks, property details etc would be transferred to the new system. Email blasts would be sent, encouraging all to declare their properties, and file tax returns

Stage 2: Using Data Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data, Project Insight will create ‘individual spending profiles’ of all Indians, based on their existing data and the data mined via social media profiles. This will start from December 2017.

Stage 3: Starting May 2018, Project 2018 will start predicting income sources, spending and associated tax of every individual and business establishment.

As per some experts, tax compliance is expected to rise by 30-40%, once Project Insight is implemented.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had earlier said in February: “Technology is a boon for mankind. We plan to use technology in taxation department in a big way to make life simpler for a law abiding citizen, and also for data mining to track tax evaders. After demonetization, the preliminary analysis of the data received related to deposits made in old currency presents a revealing picture. This data mining will help us expand the tax net.”

It seems that the time has now come for implementing the same.

Do share your insights on Project Insight by commenting right here!

Facebook Will Now Charge Money To Read Articles!

SoAs.in July 20, 2017 Apps , Facebook , Mobile , Money , PC

Facebook has decided to implement a new form of monetization on their platform, which has now 2 billion users. Their master plan is to charge money from users, who want to read articles being published directly on their portal via Instant Articles. Analysts are questioning this logic, as they are pondering hard over this question: Will the disappointment of Instant Articles be repeated now?

During Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York, Facebook’s news partnerships head Campbell Brown announced that they will launch a paywall within Instant Articles, which will allow only paid readers to read the content.

As per Campbell, publishers who are (still) part of Instant Articles, have requested Facebook to deploy this paywall mechanism. And Facebook is simply complying with that request.

He said, “One of the things we heard in our initial meetings from many newspapers and digital publishers is that ‘we want a subscription product — we want to be able to see a paywall in Facebook.”, adding, “And that is something we’re doing now. We are launching a subscription product.”

As per reports coming in, a new paywall mechanism would be deployed within Instant Articles. When a reader will click on a particular paywall protected article on Instant Articles, he will be directed towards the publisher’s own website, wherein he would be required to pay for reading the content.

Both a premium and metered paid plans would be introduced within this new system.

The plans and charges for the digital subscription, it seems, would be determined by the publisher, with Facebook taking a cut, as per speculations.

Starting October, the trial run of this new paywall powered Instant Articles will start, which is seen as an ‘appeasement’ step for publishers.

Disappointment Of Instant Articles Will Be Repeated?

The foundation of the new paid articles program is Instant Articles, which has been seen as a major disappointment by the publishers.

Complains of less revenues and less traffic has been regularly being directed towards Instant Articles platform, and the new paywall scheme can be the result of these complaints.

New York Times, one of the leading participants of Instant Articles pulled their plug, and started providing lesser articles to Facebook.

The Times, another elite participant of Instant Articles, stopped using it after a year and a half, because they discovered disappointing results in terms of revenues and eyeballs, both.

While Bloomberg never participated in IA, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, CBS News, NPR, the Financial Times and Vice News always advocated against the format.

It seems that Facebook needs to fight on two fronts here: Competition from Google’s AMP platform, which uses similar business model like that of Instant Articles, and the complains from existing publishers regarding less revenue.

Will paywall solve these issues? Or this would be yet another disappointment from Facebook. Do let us know by commenting right here!

Facebook tries to prove Instant Articles beat mobile web

SoAs.in July 19, 2017 Facebook , Mobile , Tech

One-third of all link clicks on Facebook already go to its self-hosted Instant Articles. Facebook claims they drive more referral traffic click-for-click because people don’t abandon them mid-click as they do with slow-loading mobile websites. Now Facebook is teaming up with Nielsen to prove that individual publishers benefit when they post with the Instant Articles format.

Today Facebook is launching an analytics comparison tool for Instant Articles publishers. It looks at the referral traffic from a test group of people who see Instant Article versions of links, and a control group that sees mobile web versions. Facebook hopes publishers will see for themselves that they get more traffic from Instant Articles. The tool is now rolling out to publishers who’ve posted enough of both formats, and Facebook plans to add more metrics to the tool in the future.

Facebook says that, on average, here’s how much more people click and read Instant Articles over mobile web in different parts of the world:

U.S. and Canada click and read over 25 percent more
Europe clicks and reads over 30 percent more
Middle East and North Africa click and read 80 percent more
Southeast Asia reads and clicks 60 percent more
Latin America reads and clicks 60 percent more
India reads and clicks over 75 percent more
That leaves out of whether these Instant Articles monetize better. That’s something that publishers are increasingly worried about — and with good reason.

Facebook launched Instant Articles in 2015 with a sterilized style, tons of restrictions on how many ads they could show and no way to include subscription purchase, newsletter sign-up or recirculation units that drive revenue. That year, I warned publishers they risked becoming ghostwriters feeding dumb content into Facebook’s smart pipe, with no differentiation between publishers or opportunities to build long-term relationships with loyal readers. You can watch my rant about the problem below.

Facebook ‘Groups for Pages’ unlocks fan clubs

SoAs.in July 19, 2017 Facebook , News , Tech

With Facebook’s newest feature, a musician could run an on-site fan club, a brand could organize its ambassadors and a newspaper could discuss articles with just its top readers. Today Facebook globally launched Groups for Pages, allowing the 70 million Pages on Facebook to create their own distinct communities and feeds.

The launch could further Facebook’s new mission statement to “bring the world closer together” and push it toward its goal to grow the membership of “meaningful groups” from 100 million now to 1 billion in the future.

Facebook first quietly tested the feature in March, but today Chief Product Officer Chris Cox announced the feature’s full roll-out. Mentioning how one of The Washington Post’s reporters started a group called PostThis for its journalists and most loyal readers, Cox wrote “This is one of thousands of interesting examples we heard of super-fans who wanted to be a part of the day-to-day discussion of the decisions inside the walls of an organization they care about, and more importantly to connect with everyone else who felt the same way.”

Users can look at a Page’s Groups shortcut for any communities they’ve created. Pages can link an existing Group to their Page in addition to launching new ones.

For years, Facebook pushed people to create lists of specific friends to share different posts with, or to just fully embrace “openness” and share publicly. But it seems to have realized that people’s values and interests don’t always align with their geographic communities, or even their closest friends. Since the News Feed prioritizes showing content that gets lots of clicks and Likes, niche content could often fall flat and reach few people. Plus there’s the issue that Trump’s polarization of the United States has made sharing political content to Facebook a minefield of angry relatives and extremist high school classmates.

By pushing users to join and participate in Groups, Facebook gives them homes for the different sides of their prismatic identities. If you define yourself by the band you listen to every day, the brand you wear or the person you vote for, your enthusiastic posts about them might get a more positive and less contentious reception inside a Facebook Group.

A huge new survey shows that teens are bullied most on Instagram and Facebook

SoAs.in July 19, 2017 Apps , Facebook , Instagram , Mobile

According to British anti-bullying organization Ditch The Label’s new annual survey, Instagram is the network of choice for cyberbullies in 2017 with Facebook close behind. This year’s survey collected results from 10,020 people between the ages of 12 and 20, making for a respectably robust data set that sheds some light into the damaging phenomenon endemic to internet communities.

For the portion of respondents who have experienced cyberbullying, 42% report being bullied on Instagram, 37% report being bullied on Facebook and 31% have been bullied on Snapchat. While 92% of young people reported using YouTube, making it the most popular platform in the survey, only 10% experienced bullying there.

Some more interesting details from the young people surveyed:

50% report having been bullied
1 in 10 report being bullied within the last week
50% of those who had been bullied report being bullied about their appearance
24% of those bullied said that they had their private information shared online
27% had photos and videos shared against their will
18% had their profile wrongfully reported

The full study also goes more in depth into the psyche of young people who engage in bullying behaviors, with 12% of respondents reporting that they had bullied someone by their own definition.

Facebook fights fake news spread via modified link previews

SoAs.in July 18, 2017 Facebook , News

Until now, any Facebook Page that posted a link could change the headline, body text and image that appeared in the News Feed preview. That allowed fake news distributors to bait-and-switch readers into visiting articles they didn’t expect, or make it look like legitimate news publishers were posting inflammatory or false headlines. But it also let real news outlets A/B test link previews, tailor content to different audiences and update previews as news stories evolved.

To combat false news without stifling responsible publications, Facebook is now starting to disable the ability of all Pages to edit the previews of the links they post in the Page composer or API, with an exemption for some original publishers.

Facebook writes that “We’re first rolling this [Link Ownership] feature out to media publishers, including news, sports and entertainment Pages, because we’ve found that many of these Page types modify links to their own articles at scale.” Webmasters will still be able to change the Open Graph tags on their site and articles and test them with the Open Graph Debugger to configure the default previews for their content.

A new tab in Page Publishing Tools for Link Ownership will let those exempted specify the web domain they own, and be authorized by Facebook to modify the previews of links to this domain. All Pages that want exemption must have their link ownership approved by September 12, 2017, when the removal of unauthorized preview editing will be fully rolled out.

At F8 in April, Facebook mentioned a change to link preview modification would come to the API, but didn’t have a solution for the many Pages that rely on changing their link previews to optimize their content.

The change could allow Facebook to dismantle some of the infrastructure that allows the mass distribution of fake news without having to make judgement calls about each piece of content individually. Methods like this and the many recent News Feed algorithm changes Facebook has made allow it to promote the truth without having to police the lies directly. That strategy could prevent it from drawing criticism for favoring one side of the political spectrum over another.

WhatsApp में नहीं ये 8 फीचर्स लेकिन FB मैसेंजर व हाइक में हैं मौजूद

SoAs.in July 18, 2017 Facebook , Mobile , Tech , WhatsApp

पिछले कुछ सालों से व्हाट्सएप ऐप को नए नए फीचर्स से अपडेट किया जा रहा है। लेकिन फिर भी इसमें कुछ फीचर्स की कमियां नजर आती हैं। हर कोई फैमिली, ऑफिस और दोस्तों से हमेशा व्हाट्सएप के जरिए ही जुड़े रहता है। कुछ एप्स के मुकाबले व्हाट्सएप कई फीचर्स की कमी के चलते यूजर्स के दिमाग में खटकता है। भले ही यह दुनिया का टॉप मैसेजिंग ऐप हो लेकिन इसमें अभी भी कुछ फीचर्स की कमी है जो कि इसके प्रतिद्वंद्वियों के पास हैं। हम अपनी खबर में उन्ही एप्स के बारे में बताने जा रहे हैं जो काफी फेमस तो हैं लेकिन व्हाट्सएप पर नहीं हैं।

1. स्टिकर्स -
बिना कुछ लिखे इमोशन्स के जरिए लोगों को अपनी बात बताना हर मैसेजिंग ऐप में काफी ट्रेंडिंग पर है। व्हाट्सएप में इमोटिकॉन्स के अलावा किसी तरह का कोई इमोशन्स स्टिकर नहीं है। दूसरे एप्स जैसे फेसबुक मेसेंजर, वाइबर, हाइक में तरह-तरह के इमोशन्स स्टिकर मौजूद हैं जो चैटिंग को काफी दिलचस्प बनाता है।

2. GIF सेल्फी -
सेल्फी लेने का शौक हर किसी को है। आजकल यूजर्स सेल्फी के दौरान कई तरह के मोड्स अपनाते हैं। इस GIF सेल्फी काफी ट्रेंडिग पर है। बिना किसी थर्ड पार्टी ऐप के जरिये मैसेजिंग ऐप में GIF सेल्फी का ट्रेंड काफी चल रहा है। कई एप्स में यह फीचर शामिल है लेकिन व्हाट्सएप अभी भी इस फीचर से दूर है।

3. प्राइवेट चैट्स -
कुछ चैट्स ऐसी होती हैं जिन्हें हम डिलीट तो नहीं करना चाहते लेकिन उन्हें प्राइवेट जरूर रखना चाहते हैं जो किसी और को खुद का व्हाट्सएफ इस्तेमाल करते वक्त दिखाई न दें। हाइक के साथ साथ ऐसे कई मैसेजिंग ऐप हैं जिनमें गुप्त या प्राइवेट चैट मोड दिया जा रहा है।

4. पोक फीचर -
कई यूजर्स अभी भी पोक फीचर का इस्तेमाल करते हैं। यूजर्स इस फीचर का इस्तेमाल किसी को छेड़ने के लिए करते हैं। कई मैसेजिंग एप्स में इस फीचर को शामिल किया गया है। चैटिंग के दौरान डबल टैप करने पर किसी भी दोस्त को पोक किया जा सकता है। पोक करने से फोन बाइब्रेड होगा और स्क्रीन पर चैट की जगर हाथ बना हुआ आएगा।

5. इन-एप वॉलेट -
व्हाट्सएप अभी ऐप वॉलेट को रोलआउट करने पर विचार कर रहा है। लेकिन हाइक मैसेंजर ने पिछले महीने में इन-वॉलेट को पेश कर दिया है। हाइक द्वारा शुरू की गई वॉलेट सेवा सरकारी सरकार समर्थित यूनिफाइड पेमैंट इंटरफेस (UPI) पर आधारित है। वॉलेट का इस्तेमाल अन्य मोबाइल यूजर्स के लिए मुफ्त और तत्काल बैंक-से-बैंक ट्रांसफर करने के लिए किया जाता है। इसके जरिये उन लोगों को भी ट्रांसफर कर सकते हैं जो हाइक मैसेंजर पर नहीं है।

6. लाइव फिल्टर्स -
लाइव फिल्टर्स स्नैपचैट और फिर फैसबुक पर आने के बाद काफी पॉपुलर हुआ है। अब यह फीचर इंस्टाग्राम पर भी आ गया है। व्हाट्स ऐप ने अभी फोटो भेजने से पहले उन पर टेक्स्ट और इमोटिकॉन्स के साथ डुडलिंग द्वारा एडिट पिक्चर्स को भेजने का फीचर शामिल किया है लेकिन व्हाट्स एप अभी भी लाइव फिल्टर्स से काफी दूर है। हालांकि व्हाट्सएप ने फरवरी में स्नैपचैट स्टोरीज की तरह ही स्टेटस फीचर जोड़ा है जिसमें फोटो और वीडियो के जरिये दोस्तों को अपना स्टेटस दिखा सकते हैं।

7. ऑटो रिप्लाई ऑप्शन -
ऑटो रिप्लाई फीचर उस समय इस्तेमाल किया जाता है जब आप ड्राइविंग कर रहे हों या किसी मीटिंग में बैठे हों और आपके पास रिप्लाई करने का समय नहीं है। यह फीचर फेसबुक मैसेंजर और गूगल एलो में शामिल किया गया है। इस फीचर के जरिये अगर आपका दोस्त आपसे कुछ पूछता है तो वह रिप्लाई को ऑटोमैटिकली जनरेट कर देगा।

8. 1GB से ज्यादा की फाइल शेयर -
व्हाट्सएप ने हाली ही लेटेस्ट अपडेट किया है। इसके जरिये एंड्रॉयड फोन से 100MB तक डाटा और iOS डिवाइस से 120MB तक डाटा भेजने का फीचर शामिल किया गया है। लेकिन अभी भी कुछ मैसेजिंग एप्स ऐसी हैं जिनमें 1GB तक डाटा शेयर किया जा सकता है। यूजर्स अभी व्हाट्सएप के जरिए PDF फाइल फॉर्मेट और वर्ड फाइल में डॉक्यूमेंट अटेच करके किसी को भी भेज सकता है जोकि पहले ऐसा नहीं हो सकता था। माना जा रहा है व्हाट्सएप अपने डाटा शेयरिंग फीचर को जल्द अपडेट कर सकता है।

हर ताज़ा अपडेट पाने के लिए नईदुनिया के Facebook पेज को लाइक करें

Facebook to soon roll out GIF button in comments for Windows 10 users

SoAs.in June 19, 2017 Business , buy , Cash , Credit , Donate , Facebook , Insurance , Loans , Payment , Sell , Tax , Tech , Trading

Facebook had been working on a GIF button in the comments section for some time now. Couple of days ago the company rolled out a new GIF Button which can be seen in the comments section of a post.

The GIF button lets users search GIF from GIPHY and Tenor for posting in the comments section. The GIF button was added two years ago but users had to enter the URL in the comments section.

Now the addition of the GIF button makes the process easier on mobile. It is currently available only for comments and we hope Facebook is working on bringing it to the News Feeds posts very soon.

The GIF button was introduced by the company couple of days ago and is currently available for users on iOS and Android. The GIF button could soon be made available for Windows 10 users as the Windows 10 Facebook app is an iOS port.

We will be updating this article once we have more info on the time frame the company takes to make the GIF button available for Windows 10 users.

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