News How deep fakes could lead to greater misinformation in the upcoming elections #NAMA When it comes to spreading disinformation, political parties want to create a general sentiment. What really matters for that in quantity rather than quality,... Kamya PandeyJanuary 22, 2024
News National Informatics Centre Cancels Tender for Surveillance During Polls After Election Commission’s Direction The tender outlines plans for live webcasting the voting and counting process and to set up a “centralized command and control center” to monitor... Sarasvati NTJanuary 20, 2024
News Election Integrity in the AI Era: Open AI Lists New Measures in preparation of 2024 Open AI will work on to preventing deepfakes, providing transparency on AI-generated content and improving access to accurate voting information. Vallari SanzgiriJanuary 16, 2024
News Nashik residents question the linking of Aadhaar with Voter ID Over half of respondents are against linking Aadhar with Voter ID amid opposition to this proposed move by the government Vallari SanzgiriNovember 29, 2022
News How A Politically-Linked NGO ‘Covertly’ Collected Voters’ Personal Data: The News Minute’s Report In the guise of 'educating' people on the EC's Garuda and Voter Helpline apps, the NGO instead collected politically valuable info Akshit ChawlaNovember 17, 2022
News What makes researchers concerned about misinformation on YouTube? Researchers have flagged what they call 'blind spots' in YouTube's systems to tackle misinformation ahead of U.S. midterms MitakshNovember 7, 2022
News Did previous Andhra Pradesh government steal large amounts of citizen data from state servers? An Andhra Pradesh govt panel claims that a large volume of data was transmitted from state servers to external servers Sarvesh MathiOctober 13, 2022
News You will be able to link voter ID with your Aadhar number starting August 1. Here’s what you need to know. The Indian government has notified the linkage of Aadhar with Voter ID but opposition and civil society flag privacy and free elections as major... MitakshJune 20, 2022
News Biometric verification of voters in Bihar’s panchayat polls was mandatory. Here’s how that went down Matching voters' fingerprints with Aadhaar data is legally questionable but that hasn't stopped other states from taking a cue. Anushka JainMarch 24, 2022
News Government should put an end to Facebook’s interference in Indian elections, Congress President says after reports accused platform of favouring BJP Something similar happened in the last US presidential election when Trump got FB ads at lower rates than his opponent. Sarvesh MathiMarch 17, 2022