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Sunday, March 15, 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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.