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Thursday, April 9, 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

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation in play: Air Headquarters to control strategic assets  

Exclusive: Theaterisation proposal has been stuck over how limited air assets would be divided. Consensus reached on division of air assets among 3 theatres, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.