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| Oct 23, 2026 | India's eMudhra to exit global SSL certificate business after Google, Mozilla block weak CA certificates | Bengaluru-based digital trust company eMudhra has decided to exit its global SSL/TLS certificate business, days after eight of its intermediate certificate authority (CA) keys were found to be so weak that anyone could work them out, prompt... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | From WhatsApp to GoDaddy: How India is trying to stop cybercrime before it happens | Listen
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| Jul 28, 2026 | Modi faces challenge from activists over surveillance at India youth protest | NEW DELHI: Indian activists are challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over the use of AI-powered surveillance used at the largest youth protest in decades, with one court case set to become a test of federal powers even... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | India Geo-Blocks Student Protest Coverage for 20 Million Followers With No Order, No Law Named | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 24 2026, 6:43 AM EDT
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| Jul 19, 2026 | EU-Funded Herta Security Runs Banned Facial Recognition on 4,000 Indian Cameras | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 19 2026, 10:08 AM EDT
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| Jul 14, 2026 | India’s Biometric AI Disconnects 50 Million Fraudulent Mobile Connections | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jul 14 2026, 7:28 AM EDT
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| Jul 11, 2026 | Instagram's newest AI tool didn't survive the week | It started as a routine product drop. Then it spiraled into a PR nightmare. Now it's gone.
On Friday, Meta said a new feature that allowed users to generate AI images from public Instagram posts is no longer available. Users learned of... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | India’s Messaging App Freeze Nears July 9 Reckoning With No Cited Statutory Authority | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jul 07 2026, 9:20 AM EDT
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| Jul 3, 2026 | India Halts WhatsApp Usernames for 850 Million Users, Audits Telegram and Signal | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jul 03 2026, 5:23 AM EDT
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| Jul 3, 2026 | India Widens Username Crackdown to Telegram and Signal, IFF Calls It Unlawful | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jul 03 2026, 9:48 PM EDT
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| Jul 3, 2026 | India issues notice to Telegram, Signal on concerns over usernames, source says | July 3 : India has issued notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal asking them to explain safeguards around features that allow users to post messages without revealing their phone numbers, a government source said.
The notices ma... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | WhatsApp pausing usernames for hundreds of millions of users over fraud fears | WhatsApp’s plan to let people use usernames instead of phone numbers has run into trouble in India, its biggest market. This newly introduced feature is meant to improve privacy by letting users connect without immediately sharing their pho... |
| Jun 19, 2026 | Telegram loses bid to overturn India's temporary blocking of the app | NEW DELHI: Telegram on Friday (Jun 19) lost its bid to overturn an Indian government order temporarily banning the messaging app, with a New Delhi court ruling that the government's actions, aimed at preserving the integrity of a key m... |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Telegram Challenges India’s NEET Ban in Delhi High Court Over Section 69A Limits | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jun 17 2026, 06:28 AM EDT
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| May 22, 2025 | Nigeria: Why Meta Is in Trouble in Nigeria and What This Means for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Users | Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was recently hit with three fines totalling more than US$290 million in Nigeria. The fines were imposed by Nigeria's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, ... |
| Nov 25, 2024 | India Punishes Meta For Its ‘Take-It-Or-Leave-It’ Approach To Collecting And Sharing Personal Data | Whether you like the results or not, there’s no denying that the EU’s GDPR legislation has tackled a wide range of privacy problems in the online world. Other countries around the globe — including the US — may lack comparable national legi... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation | As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed by misinformation.
The country — which has more than 830 million internet users and is home to the la... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years | The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citize... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Centre notifies fact check unit under IT rules ahead of general elections | The Centre on Wednesday notified the setting up of a fact-checking unit (FCU) for monitoring news related to its business, weeks ahead of the general election.
The dedicated unit will be set up under the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the ... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | India launches ‘Chakshu’ to report fraudulent calls, messages | The Indian government has launched a new service that enables internet users to report suspicious calls and messages.
Named Chakshu, the service is already accessible on the Sanchar Sathi portal of the Department of Telecommunications. Thro... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | India Approves Historic Telecom Bill, Opening the Floodgates for Starlink and More | John Lopez, Tech Times 21 December 2023, 07:12 am |
| Sep 28, 2023 | India gov’t to propose setting up a separate body for vast data management, draft bill shows | With data being considered the new oil, India, the world’s second-largest internet market after China, is looking to establish a dedicated entity to manage the data it generates and set up rules and regulations for non-personal and anonymiz... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | India pushes ahead with data privacy bill despite pushback from critics | India’s lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week, even as the bill has received criticism, with many believing that it grants significant discretionary authority to the Prime Minist... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | The Indian Telecommunication Bill Engenders Security and Privacy Risks | The last telegram in India was sent in July 2013. Almost 10 years after the use of telegraph faded into extinction, most regulation of telecommunication in India still finds its legal basis in the Indian Telegraph Act of 1885 and the Indian... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | The startup behind DigiYatra reveals how it perfected the tool’s facial recognition algorithm | The six-year-old Hyderabad-based start-up has developed the digital architecture of DigiYatra, which is currently operational in Delhi, Bengaluru, Varanasi and Hyderabad (Representative Image)
The facial recognition algorithm of DigiYatra, ... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Will Set Up Panel To Address Social Media-Related Grievances: Govt To Delhi HC | Under the new amendments, the Centre is bound by the law to establish one or more grievance appellate panels within three months from the date of commencement of the new norms
Appellate committees will comprise a chairperson and two whole-t... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Directs Startups To Share Feedback On PDP Bill | The minister of communications said that the proposed law has been simplified to ensure implementation across use cases and sectors
Startups have been suggested to test the Bill against their specific use-cases to identify gaps and submit s... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | RBI to start e-Rupee pilot in December | The Reserve Bank of India announced on Tuesday that it would start piloting its central bank digital currency, the e-Rupee, or ‘e₹-R,’ on Thursday. Starting December 1, users in select cities will be able to pay for certain goods and servic... |
| Nov 25, 2022 | New Data Protection Bill Opens Doors Of Justice For All: Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister said that the draft Bill will open up the doors of justice for everybody, and not just urban tech savvy population
Vaishnaw said that the proposed data protection board will perform independently
The draft law defines the word data... |
| Nov 19, 2022 | Govt Could Also Be Held Liable For Data Breach Under New Data Protection Bill: Report | Bill exempts certain government-notified fiduciaries from sharing information with their respective data owners owing to frivolous applications under RTI
The report said that data transfer and storage in other countries will be done based o... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Indian govt lifts ban on VLC Media Player: Check details | The Indian government has lifted its ban on the VLC Media Player nearly nine months after blocking the popular media player in the country. The news was first announced by New Delhi-based advocacy group, Internet Freedom Foundation, and the... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban | VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India’s IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer before banning its website and did not ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Indian hosting company sues government over VPN rules | Pune-based hosting provider SnTHostings has sued the Indian government, challenging rules that would require VPN companies to maintain records of their users’ data. The Internet Freedom Foundation, which is assisting the firm in the lawsuit... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | SnTHostings Sues Indian Govt, Challenges Legality Of VPN Rules | Justice Yashwant Varma directed CERT-In to submit its reply to the petition filed by VPN provider, SNTHostings, within four weeks
The CERT-In directions mandate data centres, VPNs, VPS providers and cloud service providers to collect and ho... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | SunNXT: OTT grievance redressal not a legal requirement | A representative for the Chennai-headquartered streaming service SunNXT told Entrackr that creating a grievance redressal mechanism to complain about shows and films on streaming services in India is not a requirement that has legal force.
... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | India considering appeals panel with power to reverse Facebook, Twitter and YouTube content moderation decisions | India is proposing to create an appeals panel with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media firms, it said Monday evening, republishing the draft changes to the IT rules after quietly withdrawing it last week.
... |
| May 10, 2022 | Indian government's VPN guidelines will impact over 270 million users as VPN providers have no option but to leave the country | The Indian government has issued a directive mandating VPN service providers to retain user data.
India currently has over 270 million VPN users, a majority of whom use it to connect to their company network.
VPN service providers may leave... |
| May 8, 2022 | Withdrawal Of Data Protection Bill Leaves A Vacuum, Concerns Over Timeline For New Bill | While many aspects of the Bill had received criticism from various quarters, it was a referral point for many
The government is likely to bring in a new comprehensive Bill in the next session of the Parliament, but like the withdrawn Bill, ... |
| Feb 21, 2022 | Data, a key moat of Paytm ecosystem, is getting democratised and it's not a good thing for the company | RBI aims to make financial data much more accessible through the Account Aggregator Network.
Under the new initiative, no one company would hold greater authority over the customer’s financial or other data.
ICICI Securities has issued a bu... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cringe-Casting Since 2016 | The Cyberlaw Podcast has decided to take a leaf from the (alleged) Bitcoin Bandits’ embrace of cringe rap. No more apologies. We’re proud to have been cringe-casting for the last six years. Scott Shapiro, however, shows that there’s a lot m... |
| Nov 19, 2021 | Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking | Eleven months ago, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit in India demanding that local ISPs should block subscriber access to Sci-Hub and Libgen.
In common with similar injunction applications in... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | Digital rights advocacy group IFF notices 70% drop in donors as banks unable to keep up with RBI’s recurring payments regulation | IFF claimed that its membership has dropped from over 423 members to 177, shaving off ₹2.5-3 lakh in donations this month alone.
Internet Freedom Foundation took to Twitter earlier today to raise ₹30 lakh to sustain its initiatives.
The gui... |
| Sep 23, 2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation Receives $200,000 Grant from Barclays | WILMINGTON, Del., Jun 29, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation has received an additional $200,000 from Barclays US Consumer Bank to support the statewide expansion of the Foundation's Equitable Entrepreneu... |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation Receives $200,000 Grant from Barclays | PRESS RELEASE: Pete du Pont Freedom Foundation Receives $200,000 Grant from BarclaysGrant builds on the $100,000 Barclays committed to launch the Foundation's Equitable Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (E3) last year
Source: Pete du Pont Free... |
| May 26, 2021 | Indian Freedom Foundation Seeks Donation To Grow Its Network Of Litigators | Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is hosting a fundraiser to grow its network of litigators around digital rights in India and provide legal assistance to groups requiring specific help. The not-for-profit organisation is looking to raise I... |
| May 26, 2021 | India asks social media firms if they have complied with new regulations | India has asked social media firms to provide an update on whether they have complied with its new IT rules “as soon as possible” and “preferably today” even as the new regulations are being legally challenged by WhatsApp.
In a letter to “s... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | India’s new data protection bill makes a good show of user rights — but can it deliver on its promises? | India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 is likely to be placed in front of Parliament sometime this month.
The underlying goal of the proposed laws is to assign rights to users over the collecting, storage and usage of their information... |
| Dec 25, 2020 | Will NDHM’s Policy Guidelines Prove Hollow In Absence Of Data Protection Law? | Digital highways are in construction, says the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), and will form the backbone of the country’s integrated health infrastructure to bridge the existing gaps between stakeholders. However, legal and policy ... |
| May 27, 2020 | Privacy, security concerns as India forces virus-tracing app on millions | New Delhi — India's government is trying to address privacy concerns raised by hackers, activists and political opposition parties over its coronavirus contact tracing app. The app, called Aarogya Setu, ("A bridge to health" ... |
| Aug 7, 2019 | NPCI bars Truecaller from onboarding new users on UPI platform | Taking action against Truecaller data breach, in which thousands of users were registered to the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) account without their consent, the National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) has barred the platform from a... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Indian government has authorized 10 central a... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers | The Indian government has authorized 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt data on any computer, sending a shock wave through citizens and privacy watchdogs.
Narendra Modi’s government late Thursday broadened the scope of S... |
| Parliamentary Panel Calls Facebook For Deposition On PDP Bill | The joint Parliamentary committee (JPC) currently examining the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, (PDP) has called US tech giant Facebook to give its deposition on the matter in its second meeting on August 10.
Representatives from the A... |
| Will NDHM’s Policy Guidelines Prove Hollow In Absence Of Data Protection Law? | Digital highways are in construction, says the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), and will form the backbone of the country’s integrated health infrastructure to bridge the existing gaps between stakeholders. However, legal and policy ... |
| Internet Freedom Foundation Seeks Public Review Of Personal Data Protection Bill | The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an Indian organisation which advocates for the protection of digital rights and liberties, has requested the newly-formed Joint Parliamentary Committee formed for a review of the current Personal Data ... |
| Facebook Asks Supreme Court To Transfer The WhatsApp Traceability Case | Facebook has filed a transfer petition in the Supreme Court on a lawsuit regarding WhatsApp traceability. The transfer petition is scheduled for hearing in the apex court on Tuesday, according to the court website. The case is currently bei... |
| Supreme Court Warns Against Aadhaar Linking To Social Media Accounts | The Supreme Court of India has warned the government about the privacy implications of any potential move forcing users of social media platforms to link their online accounts with their Aadhaar.
The statement came after the SC agreed to he... |
| IFF Sends Legal Notice To Govt For Surveillance Using Facial Recognition | As the reports of Delhi Police’s mass surveillance with the “Automated Facial Recognition System” (AFRS) surfaced, the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has condemned the action and demanded a recall.
In response to the mass surveillance re... |
| Internet Freedom Foundation Seeks Donation To Grow Its Network Of Litigators | Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is hosting a fundraiser to grow its network of litigators around digital rights in India and provide legal assistance to groups requiring specific help. The not-for-profit organisation is looking to raise I... |
| Delhi, Chennai Amongst The Most Surveilled Cities In The World, Ahead Of Chinese, NY Cities | The national capital, Delhi has 1826 cameras per square mile, the highest in the world, stated a Comparitech report. Delhi surpasses major cities such as London, Shanghai, NYC and Singapore. Other Indian cities that made it in the top 20 ar... |
| Internet Freedom Foundation Raises Alarm Over India’s Move For Backdoor Access To Encrypted Data | The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an Indian digital rights advocacy group, has raised concerns over the government’s move to call on tech companies to allow backdoor access to encrypted communication, asking if such a statement was iss... |
| Data Protection Bill Need Of The Hour, Says Justice BN Srikrishna | Marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement declaring Right to Privacy as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution, former Supreme Court emphasised on the importance of the Data Protection Bill and thin... |
| From Clampdown On Social Media To ‘Sanskari’ OTT, How India’s New Digital Media Guidelines Can Harm Its Growth | “User privacy and the freedom of speech and expression have been sacrificed at the altar of the fake news menace,” said a legal expert as the Indian government, on Thursday (February 25) announced new rules for digital media intermediaries ... |
| Internet Freedom Foundation Questions Video Surveillance During CAA Protests | The usage of drones for surveillance by law enforcement authorities in Delhi during the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests has raised concerns about privacy. Digital rights activists are calling the act of mass surveillance as illegal... |
| Digital Advocacy Group Raises Red Flag Over DoT’s Move Seeking Mass Call Records | A digital advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has refuted the telecom department’s claims that its demand for bulk call data record (CDR) was to analyse call drops. IFF says CDR’s could lead to mass surveillance and raised the ... |
| Twitter India Head Summoned After Right Wing Group Protests Outside Twitter Office | On Sunday, there were protests outside Twitter’s India office by members of a right-wing group called ‘Youth for Social Media Democracy’. protesters said, “Twitter has acquired an anti-right wing attitude. They block our accounts & impr... |
