In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 1st September 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. Piyush Goyal offers to mediate between restaurants and aggregators: report Minister of Railways and Commerce Piyush Goyal said last week that he would like to “intervene” between Zomato and the restaurants in order to help them resolve their issues. Read it here End-to-end encryption not essential to WhatsApp as a platform: Tamil Nadu Advocate General “End-to-end encryption was introduced to WhatsApp later. Therefore, it is not essential to the platform. It was a business decision. It is a question of business policy versus law,” E. Read it here NRAI flags deep discounting, high commission charges, private labels in letter to food aggregators Amidst the ongoing #Logout movement, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has sent letters to all food aggregators including Zomato, Swiggy, UberEATS, Foodpanda on August 26, flagging several issues such as lack of transparency, deep discounting and abuse of dominant position by the food aggregators. Read it here NASSCOM-DSCI on National Health Stack: separate regulatory body for health, siloed registries, usage of single ID In its response to the Niti Aayog’s paper on the National Health Stack, industry body NASSCOM and DSCI suggested an independent regulatory body for oversight in the digital healthcare sector, “this is essential to ensure a system of checks and balances” said the two bodies in a joint submission to Niti Aayog. Read it here…
