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Issues with WhatsApp's use by political parties to disseminate disinfo have been here for a while. Can this change?

The year 2024 is a very special one. As many as 76 out of 196 countries are going to hold elections this year, in which nearly 4bn (billion) or 400 crore voters will participate. What will make these elections different is the manner in which politicians will reach out to voters.

The inaugural EU-India Trade and Technology Council Summit will have to overcome thorny questions between two of the world’s largest democracies.

Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.

Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.

We have a stellar line-up of speakers, and as always, a great set of attendees for MediaNama’s discussion on “Regulating Non-Personal Data”, being held on February 18th, 2022. The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill has recommended that non-personal data be included in the Data Protection Bill, and it be governed by […]

Government aims to expand Ayushman Bharat through Aadhaar-based eligbility check, issue family IDs May 11, 2021 The National Health Authority’s (NHA) proposal to develop an Aadhaar-based self-verification platform for citizens to check whether they are eligible for the Ayushman Bharat scheme has raised quiet a few eyebrows. The apex health body set up by the entity has proposed to integrate several databases in the backend for users to conduct a self-search to check if he/she is eligible for ...

5 hours ago India’s latest report on Non Personal Data, published by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MEITY) Committee of Experts has defined parameters regarding who can seek Non Personal Data, High Value Datasets, what a community is and who can represent it as a trustee, rights over non personal data, sovereign access to data, meta-data directories, and addressed intellectual property concerns. They’ve exempt entire raw databases from data requests, taken...

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday termed as “misleading” and “mischievous” a report that it had directed Facebook to block posts carrying the hashtag #ResignModi – and the social media giant later restored them, saying they had been blocked “by mistake”. The Union ministry of electronics and information technology shared a statement on Koo app, India’s domestic alternative to Twitter, saying, “A story by Wall Street Journal attributing removal of a certain hashtag by Face...

5 hours ago You’re reading it here first: The Hyderabad City Police wants to acquire several invasive phone and computer cracking tools for its Cyber Crime unit, including software such as Cellebrite’s UFED that can bypass, reveal or disable lock codes of several makes of smartphones including those running iOS. The department is also looking to buy software that can retrieve data from popular platforms such as WhatsApp to access contacts, chats and attachments. The state government has inv...