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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicData privacy

Topic: data privacy

Instagram founders quitting makes a terrible picture for Facebook

Instagram founders leaving is terrible optics for Facebook just when it was trying to present a picture of confidence after 2 years in crises. 

Storing data locally can hurt both Indian businesses and consumers

When governments build barriers to protect companies, then consumers suffer, growth stagnates, and the entire country falls behind the rest of the world.

India can offer a radically new way of looking at data: Nandan Nilekani

We must have protection. But there’s more than that. Is there a way to empower people to use their data to their own advantage? That’s really a whole new idea.

Facebook reviewing its policy for child abuse videos and underage account holders

Amid growing criticism of its content policies and data privacy issues, Facebook is also updating oversight training policies for staff who review content on the website.

Draft data protection bill pays little attention to the dangers of state power

Individual rights need protection from both state and private digital players. The Srikrishna Committee draft bill recognises one dangerous actor but seems to have forgotten the other.

Rahul Gandhi writes to CBSE demanding probe on reported data breach of NEET candidates

News reports said that personal details of NEET candidates like names and phone numbers were available online.

India’s landmark data privacy law won’t apply to the very cause behind its existence— Aadhaar

The draft report says the legislation will ‘not apply to any processing activity that has been completed prior to this law coming into effect’.

Don’t be shocked at spies tracking your phone

The discovery of "stingray" devices in Washington is a reminder of how much data we're giving away. The press has been in a lather of...

On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.