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India’s I&B ministry blocks eight YouTube channels for ‘spreading fake news’
Delhi police’s reply to IFF RTI shows FRT may worsen religious-bias in policing
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TLDR: Assam internet block, India G24, TikTok, Twitter, Big Tech, drones for healthcare, more
How Google’s location tracking led to a $42 million penalty in Australia
Eight YouTube channels with over 85 lakh subscribers have been blocked by MIB in India, citing 'fake news' and 'promoting enmity'
The Delhi Police says that 80% match for accused in rioting investigations is enough to move forward, raising concerns on privacy, discrimination, more
The Competition Act, 2002, is finally set to get a makeover, a decade after it was introduced. Why is it being amended? How will mergers...
IFF also strongly opposed the intermediary Self Regulatory Body proposed by Koo.
Popular messaging app WhatsApp, owned by Meta, banned 2 million accounts in India in June 2022, as per compliance report under IT Rules 2021
The majority of grievances received by Twitter this years in India were over abuse and harassment, it said in its compliance report
Disney+ Hotstar is likely the only major streaming platform compliant with this provision of the IT Rules 2021 which also cover social media
Delivery workers union wrote letters to Zomato and Swiggy demanding compensation for the kin of delivery workers who died while at work
A security researcher has identified a massive data leak affecting crores of Indian citizens, but there's no clarity on where the data leaked from.
A PhonePe ex-employee, now suspended from Paytm also, apparently posted videos of himself burning PhonePe QR codes in Greater Noida
Delhi High Court ruled in favour of Newslaundry after TV Today sued it for 'defamation', saying that satire is part of free speech
The government is set to withdraw the Data Protection Bill 2021, as per the Supplementary List of Business published on Lok Sabha website
Government pushes Digital India Act as a timely replacement of the IT Act while also seeking greater control over content moderation
Summary and expert analysis of the proposed changes in the Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 aimed at overhauling the CCI's role, and more
Submission says that under the IT Rules as they are, social media intermediaries will face complaince burden, risk censorship, and have legal unclarity
The government is likely to go ahead with a Grievnace Redressal Committee (GAC) for social media companies despite objections
A recent case in Nebraska, U.S., where law enforcement accessed Facebook messages to make arrests for abortion, highlights privacy concerns
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...
There is a need for reconceptualizing personal, non-personal data and the concept of privacy itself for regulators to effectively protect data
Existing consumer protection regulations are not sufficient to cover the extent of protection that a crypto-investor would require.
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...
