Manish Singh reports: Twitter has appointed a resident grievance officer in India days after the American social media firm said to have lost the liability protection on user-generated content in the South Asian nation over non-compliance with local IT rules. On Sunday, Twitter identified Vinay Prakash as its new resident grievance officer and shared a way to contact him…
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Game Over: Chinese Company Deploys Facial Recognition to Limit Teenagers
Tiffany May and Amy Chang Chien For almost every video game restriction, children and teenagers will find a way around it. But the room to maneuver is shrinking in China, where underage players are required to log on using their real names and identification numbers as part of countrywide regulations aimed at limiting screen time…
Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules
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…
ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, others ask EU & US regulators to ban surveillance-based advertising
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of privacy-first tech companies, including the likes of ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi, Tutanota, and Startpage, have published an open letter today asking EU and US regulators to take action and ban surveillance-based advertising. Surveillance-based advertising refers to a common practice in the advertising industry where companies amass large quantities of personal…