Saritha Rai and Upmanyu Trivedi report: Twitter Inc. pledged to “fully comply” with India’s new internet regulations, caving in a dispute with the government over rules that critics say curtail privacy and free speech. The U.S. social media giant has appointed an interim chief compliance officer, will name a grievance officer by July 11 and set…
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High Court Notice To Centre, State On Data Leak Allegations Against TrueCaller
The Press Trust of India reports: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union and Maharashtra governments, among others, over a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that claimed Truecaller mobile application “shared” user data, breaching the law of the country. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing…
EU Parliament lets companies look for child abuse on their platforms, with reservations
Clothilde Coujard reports: The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial law that would allow digital companies to detect and report child sexual abuse on their platforms for the next three years. Tuesday’s vote was the final hurdle for the bill, and will allow companies to scan their platforms for explicit material without fear of violating…
Prenatal test developed with Chinese military stores gene data
Kirsty Needham and Clare Baldwin report: A prenatal test taken by millions of pregnant women globally was developed by Chinese gene company BGI Group in collaboration with the Chinese military and is being used by the firm to collect genetic data, a Reuters review of publicly available documents found. The report is the first to…