India’s growing use of smartphones, AI tools and social media is driving a surge in demand for digital storage, with experts warning of a “...

WhatsApp has agreed to implement SIM binding and enhanced safeguards against prolonged scam calls, as per a Supreme Court filing. The compa...

Authorities are launching a major crackdown on digital arrest scams. WhatsApp has banned thousands of accounts involved in these frauds. Ne...

The NHRC in its March 24 notice to the ministry had raised alleged non-compliance of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act by dig...

Social groups warn oversight of online user content may increase censorship, industry pushes back against mandatory compliance with 'adviso...

The global spotlight on the first such ban on people under 16 using popular apps appears to have encouraged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), voicing...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognisance of alleged violations of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Ac...

WhatsApp, which has been criticised earlier for spreading fake news and hate speech in the country, as well as elsewhere in the world, had ...

WhatsApp banned over 18 lakh such accounts in the country in March. The company also received 844 grievance reports in April within the cou...

Previously, the Meta-owned company had stated that more than 95% of bans are due to the unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (sp...

WhatsApp banned about 2.07 million accounts in India in the month of October, mainly on the basis of technology tools deployed to prevent h...

In accordance with India IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp has published its fourth monthly report for September 1-30. It banned 2,209,000 accounts a...

The US-based social media network proactively acted on 3.5 million posts related to violent and graphic content and 2.6 million posts conce...

The central bank said it had advised the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), which manages the UPI system, to not permit WhatsApp...

In August, the apex court had directed the banking regulator to submit a compliance report on the data localisation efforts undertaken by t...

Incidentally, sources in the regulatory body National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said WhatsApp, which has over 200 million active...