The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 has led to confusion about whether or not all users will have to verify their age and identity to access online services. Under the Digital ...

The United Kingdom Government has announced its plans to turn the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfakes into a criminal offence. The proliferation of such “hyper-realistic images ...

Recently, Meta deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after users interacted with them, and shared their experiences, which highlighted the bots’ poor-quality images and their tendency ...

Hospitality chain OYO has launched a new check-in policy to allow partner hotels to deny rooms to unmarried couples, starting from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, reported Economic Times. There is no ...

Sixteen months after the Government finalised the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP, 2023), it released a draft of data protection rules for public consultation. While the rules fill up a ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a master direction mandating that Credit Information Companies (CICs) must notify customers via SMS or email whenever their Credit Information Report ...

The Indian government has empowered the Directorate General of GST Intelligence Headquarter (DGGI-HQ) to instruct intermediaries to block the websites of online gaming companies that are suspected ...

Google and X (formerly Twitter) have not submitted their application for a license to operate in Malaysia under the country’s newly implemented licensing order for social media platforms.

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Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw recently embarked on a series of interviews explaining the draft Rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA).

We missed this earlier: A study titled “YouTube’s Anorexia Algorithm” by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that every two in three video recommendations by YouTube promote ...

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing its virtual assistant Siri of secretly recording conversations without consent from users, as per a report by The Indian Express.