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Source- ndtv.com Facing intense scrutiny over the misuse of its platform globally during elections, Facebook has announced fresh steps to increase ad transparency and defend against foreign interference ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in India. Now anyone who wants to run an ad in India related to politics will need to first confirm their

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Monday refused to accord an urgent hearing to a TMC MLA’s plea seeking to stay a central government move to set up a ‘Social Media Communication Hub’ that would collect and analyse digital and social media content. A vacation bench of justices S Abdul Nazeer and Indu Malhotra asked advocate Nizam

Source – hindustantimes.com B.N. Srikrishna is a genial, 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge who recites Shakespeare and Sanskrit scriptures with equal facility. But he’s making the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook more than a little nervous. Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from

Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court has slapped a cost of Rupees one lakh each on internet giants like Google and Facebook for failing to file their replies on the steps taken by them to block videos of sexual offences on social sites. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit noted

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the parent company of Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Bing to file a response after they disclosed the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir. The direction from Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it would soon formulate a regulatory regime, similar to one existing for all telecom operators, for Over-The-Top (OTT) services like WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype, WeChat and Google Talk. The department of telecom’s main argument was that OTTs use the network of telecom service

Source – hindustantimes.com There is no guaranteed right to privacy enshrined in the Indian constitution. However, in many judgements over several years, several legal luminaries have interpreted Article 21 – the right to life and liberty as giving rise to a somewhat limited right to privacy. There are a number of restrictions to a right to