India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
Draft of rules proposed … Debanish Achom / NDTV : Parents' Consent Must For Children's Social Media Accounts: Draft Data Rules Mathrubhumi English : Draft rules for digital privacy notified; Kids unde...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village … Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social . Bluesky: @mmitchel...
Apple warns it will remove apps from the App Store that haven't been “updated in a significant amount of time” and is giving developers 30 days to update them
what you need to know Chris Kerr / Game Developer : Apple warns App Store devs outdated apps will be pulled from sale Sarvesh Mathi / MediaNama : Why developers are unhappy with Apple removing outdate...
Google has restored India's Paytm app after pulling it from Play Store ahead of the IPL cricket tournament; sources say for violating its gambling policies
here's the full timeline Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers : [Update: Reinstated] Paytm removed from Google Play Store for policy violations, likely due to its fantasy gaming platform Saritha Rai / Bloo...
Interview with India's Nikhil Pahwa, the founding editor of MediaNama who pushed against Facebook's Free Basics, on heavy-handed state control of the internet
and why the activist who led its righteous fight against Facebook Free Basics six years ago fears his movement is being coopted by nationalist hawks. https://onezero.medium.com/... OneZero / @ozm : “I...
Interview with India's Nikhil Pahwa, the founding editor of MediaNama who pushed against Facebook's Free Basics, on heavy-handed state control of the internet
and why the activist who led its righteous fight against Facebook Free Basics six years ago fears his movement is being coopted by nationalist hawks. https://onezero.medium.com/... OneZero / @ozm : “I...
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China
Apple is committed to being transparent … Kim Lyons / The Verge : Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP : ...
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago
Connecting the World Privately Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider : WhatsApp seized on US allegations against Huawei to defend encryption against the government's demands for backdoors Nikhil Pa...
NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency
otherwise we get service bundle plans like in Portugal and Australia http://continuations.com/... http://twitter.com/... David Beard / @dabeard : How can @FCC ditch #NetNeutrality when entire FCC comm...
India's draft encryption policy puts user privacy in danger
Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama :