Public Insurance Registry: From tracking policies to improving claim processing, how PIR could benefit policyholdersIndia's Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has introduced a groundbreaking Public Insurance Registry aimed at ...
07 Sep, 2026, 07.25 AM IST
US-Iran war: American military disables ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reportsUS military branches have disabled advertising trackers on various devices. This action follows reports of location data targeting American...
05 Sep, 2026, 07.35 AM IST
Handing your smartphone to someone? This Android feature can keep your private apps and photos locked away; here's how to activate itFor anyone who shares their phone, Android's App Pinning feature is a game changer. This clever function locks the phone to a single applic...
04 Sep, 2026, 06.09 PM IST
‘Pulse’ check: How PhonePe is turning transaction data into market intelligenceIn an exclusive conversation with The Economic Times, PhonePe’s Karthik Raghupathy explained how PulsePro was born out of demand for postal...
04 Sep, 2026, 01.08 PM IST
Data at law firms Quinn Emanuel, McDermott exposed in cyber breachesIt was not clear who was responsible for the two breaches or whether they were related. Large law firms' extensive holdings of confidential...
04 Sep, 2026, 08.08 AM IST
Flipkart, Bengaluru traffic police bring AI innovators together to tackle city’s traffic woesThe Gridlock Hackathon second edition saw 33,600 registrations from students, developers and working professionals across India, with parti...
03 Sep, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
Indian banks move AI into production, but scaling remains a challenge: ZetaIndian banks are now deploying artificial intelligence in production across various functions. Scaling these AI deployments faces significa...
03 Sep, 2026, 05.49 PM IST
Perplexity CEO announces rollout of hybrid compute feature for Mac applicationArtificial intelligence firm Perplexity introduced hybrid compute for all users of its Mac application, enabling tasks to be divided betwee...
02 Sep, 2026, 08.07 AM IST
US Fed's Michael Barr warns central bank may need to raise rates if inflation stays highFederal Reserve Governor Michael Barr indicated potential interest rate increases if inflation remains elevated. He stated that the central...
01 Sep, 2026, 10.56 PM IST
Explained | Settlement requires Meta to check young users' ages: How will that work?Here is a look at what Meta said it will do to ensure that users are as old as they say they are, and some of the legal issues that could c...
31 Aug, 2026, 09.01 PM IST
Is your data truly yours? India's sovereignty struggle with foreign cloud providers and AIIndian enterprises now prioritize data sovereignty over cost and scale in cloud procurement. New regulations and geopolitical shifts highli...
30 Aug, 2026, 10.56 PM IST
Nobody is a friend; India must cut reliance on foreign tech: M2P Fintech’s Madhusudanan RIn the run up to the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Madhusudanan R, co-founder of M2P Fintech, spoke to The Economic Times Digital about the new...
29 Aug, 2026, 04.03 PM IST
Judge in Google privacy class action awards lawyers $147 million in legal feesUS District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted the fee request by law firms Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and Morgan &...
29 Aug, 2026, 08.18 AM IST
MSMEs are embracing AI without understanding the privacy risks: PrivaSapien CEOWith key provisions of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Rules set to take effect in May 2027, PrivaSapien CEO Abilash Soundararajan...
26 Aug, 2026, 10.50 AM IST
SC asks Centre to consider devising safeguards to ensure no misuse of EPFO, ITR dataThe Supreme Court finds private access to sensitive EPFO and ITR data worrisome. It urged the Centre to devise safeguards against potential...
25 Aug, 2026, 12.56 PM IST
Explained: Why OpenAI and Anthropic are suddenly talking about privacyEnterprise data privacy became the battleground for AI companies this week with OpenAI and Anthropic making moves this month that reverse o...
22 Aug, 2026, 01.09 PM IST
Lawyers square off in fight over voice data used to train AIRoss Kimbarovsky of Loevy & Loevy is representing the plaintiffs - a group of journalists, podcasters and audiobook narrators - in the prop...
21 Aug, 2026, 08.56 AM IST