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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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In just two years UPI gets the upper hand hand against Mastercard, Visa in India

Transactions using UPI reached almost half the value of debit and credit cards swiped at stores last month

What would have happened to Mahatma Gandhi in the times of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?

The artists and revolutionaries, scientists and poets, will break through the firewalls created by technocrats to control the world.

The internet is destroying democracy, says legendary journalist Harding

James Harding in his scathing Hugh Cuddlip lecture speech talked about news being weaponised and how the state must take a stronger stand.

Instead of verbal threats to Mark Zuckerberg, India must focus on data protection laws

Judicial inquiry must look into whether companies allied with Cambridge Analytica accessed personal data of Indian Facebook users and influenced elections.

Last Laughs: Some not so ‘Achhe Din’, Rajya Sabha polls & Facebook’s leak button

The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

No political party can legally be prevented from using data mining to win elections

Personal freedoms, right to privacy and secrecy have been long compromised willingly by ourselves, robbing us of our right to protest now.

Facebook has every right to make money but it shouldn’t deny it sells user data

There is always some distance between what a company says it does and what it actually does. For Facebook, it’s greater than most.

Last Laughs: The safety of Aadhaar data, divisive politics and a dry world

The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

TalkPoint: Is it possible to fix Indian elections using data from Facebook?

Experts weigh in on whether it is possible to fix Indian elections by using data from Facebook.

Both the Cambridge Analytica scandal & the Aadhaar fiasco bear the same lesson for India

The FB and Cambridge Analytica scandal raises discomfiting questions about our relationship with technology and the implications for democracy and politics. Well, it finally happened....

On Camera

India has a workplace creche problem. See how Karnataka, Assam, Odisha are taking action

Based on the NSSO's data, a man spent an average of 74 minutes a day on childcare whereas a female spent a disproportionate length of 134 minutes a day on the same.

Brokerages & hedge funds make a killing as India’s inexperienced youth flocks to the equity market

Indians aged 20-30 are trading in options market in droves, but know nothing about it & so keep losing money. If losses mount, it could undo gains India saw in investment culture, analysts fear.

Indian Coast Guard seizes fishing vessel suspected of drug smuggling Mumbai

The ICG said that the apprehended vessel was carrying four crew members.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.