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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Compared to the 2022 version, the new bill eases restrictions on companies but also strengthens the government and does less for the rights of citizens.
It shows up once a year like your eccentric uncle. It causes intrigue and then recedes into oblivion. For the fifth time in six years, the much-debated bill to protect personal data in India will go public. But this time it might stay forever. One of the 21 bills to be tabled in the parliament’s ongoing monsoon session is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which has been in the making for more than a decade now. If passed, it will finally bring a comprehensive legal framework on personal data to one of the world’s leading digital economies and also …
The ruling party’s control over state institutions has come to look like ordinary governance. Reversing this capture is essential to restoring India’s constitutional democracy.
From India to Europe, governments are piling in to build centres to support (and profit from) the AI boom. What does the UAE have that others don't?
The Department of Telecommunications’ directive that every smartphone come pre-installed with the app follows a familiar pattern of ‘optional’ tools that turn mandatory in practice.
