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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicData mining

Topic: data mining

Auction for your eyeballs: Google is sharing our personal data at a staggering scale

In the quarter ending in March, 2022, Google made about $54 billion from advertising. The consequences? Surveillance, and all your private information on sale in a digital market.

Meet Rajesh Babu Kodali, leading data mining specialist and guru to ‘young entrepreneur’

Through different data mining techniques, Kodali was able to eliminate booking & insurance related issues and that’s when he got the motivation to start his entrepreneurial journey.

‘It’s data integration’ — Chinese firm Zhenhua denies charges of illegal data mining

The company, in a statement, says their ‘data are all public’ on the internet, and that ‘its operations, which involve collecting and mobilising data, are 100% from open sources’.

Govt looking into reports that China tracking 10,000 Indians via ‘hybrid warfare’ firm

A report in The Indian Express suggests China may be employing hybrid warfare — using non-military measures to gain an edge over rivals — against India.

India needs data regulator for players like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Uber, govt panel says

India needs a data regulator as market forces on their own will not bring about maximum social & economic benefits from data for society, the panel says.

Ex-Twitter employees charged with helping Saudi govt spy on dissidents

The two former Twitter employees are accused of using their employee credentials to gain access to non-public information of Twitter users.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.