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Summary: ONDC seeks feedback on trust-building measures in latest consultation paper
RBI has the powers to regulate payment aggregators: Delhi High Court
“Security Concerns” Prevented Meta from Releasing Full Report on Impact of Hate Speech on India
Meta Faces Allegations of Non-Consensual Interception of Browsing Activity in New Class-Action Suit
PrivacyNama Session: Chief Privacy Officer Roundtable; October 7
What are the ways to build trust on India's government-backed e-commerce project Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)?
The Delhi High Court on September 15 ruled that Payment Aggregators (PAs) fall under the definition of Payment Systems and can therefore be regulated...
Wall Street Journal reports that Meta withheld parts of its Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) pertaining to hate speech in India
Well, this is unprecedented: within around seven days of acquiring global SMS, MMS and IVR rights related to the Indian Premier League, vRock Mobile has...
Update: Phani Narayanam, Founder, EYantra informs us that the company had bought back stake from Times Private Treaties last year. Earlier (March 12, 2009): Hyderbad...
Sri Lankan telco Dialog Telekom, has launched an Internet Radio service called Music Station, built on Geodesic’s Mundu Radio platform for its six million...
Our sincere apologies to our readers, who may have faced difficulty in accessing MediaNama this week. Of late, we’ve had an unexpected and quite...
Update: Corrigendum below Earlier: Though ring back tones are extremely popular in India, it is quite rare that you hear an advertisement as a...
Government Approves 10 percent Sale of BSNL There’s been talk of plans to divest stake in public sector companies: according to sources quoted in...
Don’t you just love price wars? BSNL, the government owned telecom operator, has thrown down the gauntlet by launching 3G EVDO plans that substantially...
Despite claims of IRCTC launching application based rail ticketing on mobile, there’s no clear indication of how they’re doing. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Railway has taken the...
Update: In an emailed response to MediaNama, Vodafone has said that the app store has around 200 Indian apps, and claims that thousand apps...
Social media giant Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit on violating privacy and intercepting communications by two Facebook users
RBI's card storage rules kick in today despite a lack of clarity on whether or not the payments ecosystem is ready for the change
We summarize the lawsuit against Amazon alleging anticompetitive behaviour in contracting practices and violations of state antitrust laws
India seeks to leverage non-personal data (NPD),but how far is such 'aggregated' data imune from deanonymization? We talk to experts
Apple has removed the popular Russian social media app VKontakte and other apps belonging to VK from its App Store globally
Ordinance comes even as the previous such ban by Tamil Nadu was struck down by Madras HC and has reached the Supreme Court
Studying the 'community' supporting the late Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR) shows how Twitter was gamed through organized engagement
Do we have an enabling system for the National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP) aiming to create a repository of non-personal data?
A viewpoint on why the regulation of cryptocurrencies and crypto exchnages under 2019's E-Commerce Rules puts it in a 'grey area'
India's IT Rules mandate a GAC to address user 'grievances' , but is re-instatement of content removed by a platform a power it should...
Cyber security researcher Anand Venkatanarayanan gives an overview of how Pegasus was detected on the smartphones of two Indian journalists, and how available information...
ISOC's Joe Hall said that the rationale behind CERT-In's cybersecurity guidelines need to be explained by the agency as they are too broad
Following the inaugural edition of the PrivacyNama conference, focused on key themes related to privacy regulations, we have summarised the key points raised during...
