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Apple, Google push for judicial oversight in Canada online safety billApple and Google are urging Canada to amend Bill C-22, seeking judicial oversight to prevent secret orders that could force them to break e...
Russia blocks messaging app Signal as authorities tighten control over informationRussia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, blocked the Signal messaging app, citing violation of local laws. This action is part of on...
Draft Canada law would force social media companies to quickly remove harmful contentThe bill says major social media companies must quickly remove content that sexually victimizes a child as well as intimate content communi...
EU lawmakers back rules forcing Big Tech to tackle child pornographyThe draft rule on child sexual abuse material (CSAM), proposed by the European Commission last year, has been a bone of contention between ...
Citizen Tame: recent developments that impact our technology consumptionThree major developments in the IT space over the last couple of weeks are set to have a deep impact on how the common man consumes and use...
Tech firms may take data bill to court if House adopts it verbatimA top internet executive who spoke to ET on the condition of anonymity said the clause of social media classification as publishers “will s...
India's IT Rules undermine user security, says WhatsApp CEOIndia, which had notified the revised IT rules in February this year, has made it mandatory for messaging apps to comply with the controver...
Life without Google: Australia is now facing the unthinkableSearching for 'best beach Sydney' on DuckDuckGo showed an ad for a hotel more than 1,000 km away as the top result. Bing suggested Bondi Be...
Govt starts discussions on amending India's Information Technology ActIndia's Information Technology Act may have been rendered irrelevant by the pervasive growth of smartphones and social media, while the adv...
Data Bill should be sent to house panel: Justice BN SrikrishnaThe Bill will determine how global tech giants process, store and transfer consumers’ data.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra seeks to implead herself in Aadhar-social media linkage caseMoitra has moved the Madras High Court, where the case is pending, in this regard.
Australia set to spy on WhatsApp messages with encryption lawThe legislation thrusts Australia to the heart of a global tug of war between tech companies and governments over privacy and security.
View: Will govt step in to protect your personal data? It's already too late for thatThe devices we use track us even on airplane mode, and every piece of info they suck is sorted somewhere for use by someone. We don’t know ...
Daunting task ahead for investigative agencies with WhatsApp's end-to-end encryptionA service that is encrypted end-to-end cannot be monitored or intercepted. No one, except the people or groups communicating with each othe...
Barack Obama backs away from law to access encrypted informationObama's administration has backed away from seeking legislation that would give U.S. law enforcement agencies access to individuals' encryp...
In digital push, PM Narendra Modi shouldn't take Google, Facebook at face valuePM Modi has been praised for his salesmanship in Silicon Valley, for extracting large commitments towards Digital India from Facebook, Goog...
Over 280,000 people asked Google to delete information about them over the last yearThe right to be forgotten is a piece of legislation designed to let people have web pages containing false, misleading, or outdated informa...
UK politician Theresa May is 'Web’s No. 1 villain'The Internet Service Providers’ Association accused the politician of seeking to expand Britain’s web surveillance powers 'without yet full...
- Law on cards for e-surveillance
The government, keen to ensure unrestricted access to all terror communication and e-mails, is working on a dedicated law that would make i...
- BlackBerry's current woes echo US troubles
Threats by the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to shut down BlackBerry’s corporate email services reflect u...