Companies back Smriti Mandhana, call out 'insensitive' social media scrutinyVice-captain of the Indian team that won the Women's Cricket World Cup in November this year, Mandhana has been the subject of extreme scru...
26 Nov, 2025, 11.49 PM IST
US federal judge pulls up immigration agents for using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reportsA federal judge criticized immigration agents for using AI like ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports, citing potential inaccuracies and pr...
26 Nov, 2025, 02.05 PM IST
Is Prince Harry's Immigration status at risk? Controversy sparks deportation threatsPrince Harry's U.S. immigration status is under scrutiny following controversial statements he and Meghan Markle made against Meta's policy...
17 Jan, 2025, 05.54 PM IST
Tech companies are turning to 'synthetic data' to train AI models - but there's a hidden costElon Musk claims human-generated data for AI models is running out. This shortage could force a reliance on synthetic data, which may lower...
13 Jan, 2025, 10.06 AM IST
You don't need to share that Meta AI postThese types of posts circulate every few months, tricking users who are concerned about their privacy online. The boilerplate text is easy ...
26 Sep, 2024, 01.53 PM IST
Apple's reply on device vulnerability not totally clear: Rajeev Chandrasekhar on iPhone alert to MPsIn October, several opposition leaders claimed they have received an alert from Apple warning them of state-sponsored attackers trying to "...
19 Feb, 2024, 03.56 PM IST
Meta's algorithms show that America's political polarisation has no easy fixFour research papers, published in Science and Nature, reveal the extent of political echo chambers on Facebook, where conservatives and li...
28 Jul, 2023, 07.33 AM IST
TikTok promises to ramp up fight against disinformation in EUPresenting its progress report on what it did to live up to a beefed-up EU code of practice on disinformation in the past six months, TikTo...
09 Feb, 2023, 05.29 PM IST
View: India's Data Protection Bill has a privacy problemThe Digital Personal Data Protection Bill that’s open to public comments is much shorter than its now-abandoned predecessor. It’s also a mo...
23 Nov, 2022, 09.13 AM IST
Apple adding privacy fact labels to App Store itemsThe iPhone maker announced plans for such "privacy labels" when it first unveiled the new version of its iOS mobile operating system, which...
15 Dec, 2020, 07.12 AM IST
Facebook's long and halting fight against misinformationIn April 2017, Facebook publicly acknowledged that governments or other malicious non-state actors are using its social network to influenc...
18 Oct, 2020, 04.21 PM IST
Leaks, WhatsApp rumours add to quarantine bluesThere are an increasing number of reports of stigmatization against people affected by the virus.
28 Mar, 2020, 01.09 PM IST
Amazon records it all: Tech giant's employees report hearing sad conversations with AlexaAmazon gives users the option of disabling the use of their voice recordings.
12 Apr, 2019, 10.19 AM IST
WhatsApp races against time to fix fake news mess ahead of 2019 general electionsFor WhatsApp, one of the key learnings from the Mexico elections was that it could look at the spam reports and categorise them as politics...
24 Jul, 2018, 12.58 PM IST
Payments not impacting WhatsApp's other India plans: SourcesAt the Reliance annual general meeting, Reliance announced that JioPhone users will get access to apps like WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube ...
17 Jul, 2018, 10.18 PM IST
Facebook fears loss of face, takes measures to allay concernsThe social media giant is being questioned by govts across the world, asking it be subjected to local regulations. India too has taken a st...
06 Jul, 2018, 04.00 PM IST
Supreme Court's judgement on transgenders will positively impact societyIts potential effects go beyond even the larger LGBT community. This judgement is a part of our collective constitutional heritage.
20 Apr, 2014, 05.17 AM IST