As it happened: Srikrishna Committee Data Protection Bill released - 12 new articles
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As it happened: Srikrishna Committee Data Protection Bill released 4:30pm: The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 has been released. Read it here. Read the committee’s report here. The Justice BN Srikrishna-led committee to create a data protection law is finally submitting its bill to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in New Delhi....     The panel headed by retired Justice BN Srikrishna has submitted its bill on data protection to the IT Ministry on Friday. The draft bill, titled the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, now has to be tabled in Parliament. It will be the basis of a data protection framework that prescribes... Amazon Inc. reported its Q2 2018 earnings, exceeding Wall Street expectations and posting a profit of $2.5 billion, a 1200% rise from the same quarter last year when the company reported a net income of $197 million. Amazon also reported earnings per share of $5.07, which is more than double of... Shemaroo’s digital media revenues stood at Rs 39 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 (Q1 FY19), up 36.5% from Rs 28.5 crore in Q1FY18. In the preceding quarter, the company reported digital media revenues of Rs 34.7 crore, so this is a marginal increase of 12.3% on QoQ basis. Shemaroo’s... The Indian government wants WhatsApp to prioritize on curbing fake news on its platform, over the plans to launch its payments services in the country, according to a report by PTI. In a meeting held between IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney and top WhatsApp executives, including COO Matthew... Instant messaging software Telegram has introduced Telegram Passport — a unified authorisation service. The service provides cloud storage where one can upload their identification documents and then share them with any platform or service that require a real-world ID. All documents will be... Experience discovery platform Trell gets $1.25M Trell, an experience discovery platform which allows users to share travel and local content in the for of short video, has raised seed round of $1.25 million co-led by BEENEXT and WEH Ventures. Sprout Venture Partners, Google India MD Rajan... The number of consumer complaints against e-commerce companies in India have risen by 42% with 78,088 complaints between April 2017–March 2018, as compared to 54,872 complaints in the previous corresponding period, according to the data given in Parliament by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs,... Paytm said that it does not share user data with any of its investors or with any foreign entity and stores data locally in India with no access to any external party. The company was responding to a reference made in the Rajya Sabha by Narendra Jadhav, who claimed that China’s Alibaba holding... Between 1-1.5% of all Aadhaar enrollment made in the last seven years have mixed biometrics according to highly placed sources in the UIDAI, reported the New Indian Express. The report pegs the number of Aadhaar enrollment with mixed biometrics at around 600,00–900,000 in Karnataka and around... “Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans,” US President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday. “Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.” Trump was referring to allegations by some conservatives that their... A social media platform cannot evade their “responsibility, accountability and larger commitment to ensure that its platform is not misused on a large scale to spread incorrect facts projected as news and designed to instigate people to commit crime,” IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad... |
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