A petitioner from Bangalore said that the pictures she has posted on Instagram and Facebook have been illegally lifted and placed by two respondents on a pornographic website, with derogatory captions.
Thanks to the pandemic, Big Tech has emerged with huge profits and enormous clout over individuals and governments, including sanctions against the president of the most powerful country in the world. Have the Big Five collectively become the new superpower?
In the petition, Viswam had prayed that Indians’ right to privacy should be protected from being misused by “giant corporations” for their “financial ends”.
Memories on the net are written in indelible ink. However much you want to forget and move on, even with laws permitting it, data is always available in some corner on the Internet, waiting to do damage.
The Supreme Court on Monday will hear plea by Communist Party of India MP Binoy Viswam, seeking direction to the Reserve Bank of India to frame necessary regulations to make sure that Indians’ data collected on UPI platforms is not exploited by companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
To relieve courts of cases relating to intermediaries, the government should have an elaborate grievance redressal process, starting with a designated ombudsman, mediation and later, adjudication.
Reliance’s plan of designing a 5G network is flawed as it needs infrastructure to facilitate large-scale networks, but its strategies to manage traffic patterns, pollution and electricity grids are vague
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