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
SC likely to hear petitions challenging sections of India’s first privacy law this monthThe petitioners are the Reporters' Collective, the Editors Guild of India, the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, Mazdoor...
13 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
India is facing a data obesity epidemic—as storage in phones fails to keep up with people’s voracious appetite for visualsIndia’s growing use of smartphones, AI tools and social media is driving a surge in demand for digital storage, with experts warning of a “...
10 May, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
IT companies fast aligning compliance architecture with DPDP enrouteAs India's May 2027 Digital Personal Data Protection Act deadline looms, IT majors like Infosys, Wipro, SAP, and TCS are actively strengthe...
05 May, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
UPI underdogs seek fair play; WhatsApp tightens scam defencesSmaller UPI players will meet NPCI to curb the growth of industry leaders PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm. This and more in today’s ETtech To...
29 Apr, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
WhatsApp to roll out SIM binding, tighten curbs on digital arrest scamsWhatsApp has agreed to implement SIM binding and enhanced safeguards against prolonged scam calls, as per a Supreme Court filing. The compa...
29 Apr, 2026, 11.35 AM IST
Under blackout threat, Wikimedia reaches compromise with IndonesiaWikimedia Foundation reached a compromise with the Indonesian government, averting a potential Wikipedia block. The foundation secured assu...
25 Apr, 2026, 08.34 AM IST
IAMAI sees ‘overreach’ in NHRC’s notice to MeitY over AI companies' DPDP breachesThe Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), voicing...
01 Apr, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea challenging 2023 data protection lawIndia data protection law: The plea, moved by The Reporters' Collective and renowned journalist Nitin Sethi, argues that the new data regim...
16 Feb, 2026, 04.01 PM IST
RTI Act amendment through data protection law balances it with privacy rights: Ashwini VaishnawThe government informed Parliament that amendments to the RTI Act, through the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, balance the right to p...
20 Aug, 2025, 10.41 PM IST
Govt withdraws data protection bill, 2021The withdrawal is seen as a nod to the sustained pushback by global and local technology corporations, policy makers and privacy activists ...
04 Aug, 2022, 07.02 AM IST
Government withdraws data protection billThe privacy bill was designed to protect Indian citizens and establish a data protection authority, however, it had raised concerns among t...
04 Aug, 2022, 06.56 AM IST
View: How Personal Data Protection Bill is expected to change the way privacy is perceived and practisedIndia's data protection law could come into effect soon as well. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Personal Data Protec...
27 Dec, 2021, 11.35 PM IST
No violation of data privacy under National Digital Health Mission, Rajya Sabha toldThe ambitious National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) programme was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech...
02 Feb, 2021, 04.02 PM IST
USIBC expresses concern over certain provisions on India's Personal Data Protection Bill"The bill contains several new provisions outside the core issue of data privacy that raise serious concerns for the private sector, partic...
12 Dec, 2019, 09.04 AM IST
Aadhaar Act has strong privacy provisions, says Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh KantHis statement comes in the wake of sharing of personal details of ace cricket M S Dhoni on social media by an agency that helps the Unique ...
20 Apr, 2017, 06.54 PM IST
IT Act has provision for privacy, security of data: Telecom Minister Manoj SinhaThe IT Act has legal framework for privacy and security of data in digital format and provides for compensation to the victim in the case o...
02 Dec, 2016, 05.12 PM IST