Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has decided to keep data localisation out of the e-commerce policy and let the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology...
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined the company’s ‘vision and principles around building a privacy-focused messaging and social networking platform.’ While Facebook...
Officials from the Facebook owned WhatsApp met the officials from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) over the traceability of messages, reports The...
In response to an RTI application by MediaNama, the government has made public its correspondence with WhatsApp over concerns about fake news and lynchings....
Skype has introduced Private Conversations, an end-to-end encrypted chat mode that uses the Signal Protocol. For now, Private Conversations is only available on Skype’s...
The draft National E-Commerce policy, of which MediaNama has a copy (pdf), includes debatable requirements like data localisation, an audit of foreign companies’ source code, mandating...