India’s privacy laws may not be ready for in-home physical AIThe concerns gained urgency after controversy around startup Pronto’s in-home recording pilot sparked wider questions over how “physical AI...
29 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Experts flag data spills as house-help platforms bring physical AI homeRecent data-gathering pilots by on-demand service platforms Pronto and Snabbit have drawn a spotlight on India’s emerging physical AI ecosy...
26 May, 2026, 09.01 AM IST
India-Nordic Summit signals New Delhi's emergence as 'co-author of global governance': AnalysisWhen Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described India in Oslo as "not a middle power, but one of the world's greatest powers," it...
21 May, 2026, 10.18 AM IST
Google unveils smart glasses, taking on MetaGoogle is re-entering the smart glasses market with new audio glasses featuring a microphone, camera, and speaker, allowing calls, music, p...
20 May, 2026, 08.33 AM IST
Uber's India data centre bet; Cyber cover meets AI riskUber will establish its first data centre in India with the Adani Group. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
13 May, 2026, 09.34 PM IST
US military reaches deals with 7 tech companies to use their AI on classified systemsThe Pentagon is boosting its warfighting capabilities by integrating artificial intelligence into classified computer networks. Seven leadi...
02 May, 2026, 06.57 AM IST
Alphabet investors push for safeguards on use of its cloud, AI techInvestors are demanding answers from Alphabet regarding its technology and cloud services used by governments for surveillance. A group man...
29 Apr, 2026, 09.14 PM IST
Screenshots, mouse tracking: Meta is now watching every click his employees make, and workers are calling it creepyMeta is using a new tool to track employee activity like typing, clicks, and screen actions to train its AI systems. The company wants AI t...
23 Apr, 2026, 12.50 AM IST
Bounty hunters and AI are helping ICE find immigrants in the USUS authorities are increasingly using private contractors and advanced AI to locate immigrants, a system dubbed 'skip tracing'. These firms...
03 Apr, 2026, 01.46 PM IST
Personal data isn't collected: MHA on security agencies using open-source intelligence from public sourcesSecurity agencies are utilizing open-source intelligence from public sources like social media for information gathering, assuring no priva...
31 Mar, 2026, 06.07 PM IST
Musk's Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train AIAhead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year, SpaceX is in talks to merge with Musk's AI company, xAI, a deal first reported by ...
31 Jan, 2026, 07.06 AM IST
ET Explainer: AR glasses privacy risks in view on big comebackReliance Jio, Meta, and Amazon are bringing AI-powered AR glasses to India, reviving privacy and surveillance debates reminiscent of Google...
18 Sep, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
AI relies on mass surveillance, warns Signal bossPushing back against the unquestioning enthusiasm at VivaTech in Paris, Europe's top startup conference where industry players vaunt the me...
24 May, 2024, 04.28 PM IST
Italy fines first city for privacy breaches in use of AITrento was fined 50,000 euros ($54,225) and told to delete all data gathered in two European Union-funded projects. It is the first local a...
27 Jan, 2024, 02.42 PM IST
Governments across the world race to regulate AI toolsRapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree law...
23 May, 2023, 02.34 PM IST
Regulatory measures: Governments race to rein in AI toolsRapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree law...
11 May, 2023, 02.34 PM IST
France turns towards AI-powered surveillance to secure OlympicsThe government says algorithmic video surveillance can detect "pre-determined events", abnormal behaviour and crowd surges, helping ensure ...
24 Mar, 2023, 10.12 AM IST