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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicUser privacy

Topic: User privacy

Only 3 of India’s 50 most-visited sites comply with user consent rules, finds ASCI white paper

Cookie consent practices dismal, finds white paper by Advertising Standards Council of India; stresses need for transparent, user-friendly banners & clear opt-out mechanisms.

CCI bars WhatsApp from sharing user data with other Meta apps for 5 years, imposes $25.4 million fine

The decision follows a 2021 probe into WhatsApp's privacy policy, highlighting growing regulatory scrutiny on tech giants as India plans stricter digital competition laws.

India asks WhatsApp to remove changes to privacy policy, says it’ll create ‘honeypot’ of info

In a letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the changes raise grave concerns about implications for choice and autonomy of Indians.

TikTok received most number of content removal requests from Indian govt in 2019

Tranparency report released by Chinese firm's video-sharing app says India sent the highest number of legal requets too, followed by US and Japan.

Leaked records show Facebook puts business ahead of users’ privacy

Recent leaked documents show Facebook executives plotted how to convince public they were serious about improving privacy even while their real goal was to snuff out competition.

Twitter’s excuse for its revenue problem is an admission it broke user’s trust

Twitter said the lowered growth forecast was in part due to “bugs” in one of its types of ads that made use of people’s personal information in ways users didn’t expect.

Facebook to resume human review of Portal users’ audio messages

Facebook decided to reinstate this practice because it’s important for training the company’s software programs to accurately understand requests.

Facebook’s new ‘privacy cop’ is set up for failure

Facebook has created a playing field that is tilted in favor of an all-encompassing single parent company and no assessor can remedy the inherent unfairness of that.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.