The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has received final approval from the Department of Legal Affairs over its proposal to create government-appointed bodies that will be empowered to review and possibly reverse content moderation and user grievance decisions taken by social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, The Indian Express has learnt. The […]
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To facilitate a better working relationship between the Centre and state governments, and for explaining the potential and opportunities of the government’s electronics-related manufacturing schemes, the central government on Saturday will conduct a dialogue with IT ministers of state governments. The roundtable, called the ‘Digital India Conference of State IT Ministers’ will take place during […]
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As India moves towards fostering its own semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, sectors such as automobiles and banks are alleging that chipmakers are discriminating — in the aftermath of supply disruptions caused by the pandemic — in favour of clients who need high-value chips over the lower ticket-size ones used by carmakers and banks. This assumes significance […]
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Tax authorities on both the direct and indirect tax side are raising scrutiny for possible evasion in one major upcoming sector — online gaming. Direct tax officials are learnt to be scrutinising data for winnings to the tune of Rs 58,000 crore over a span of three years for an online gaming platform, urging taxpayers […]
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Even as it has removed over 2,000 loan apps from the India Play Store over various violations, Google is yet to take a hard stance against apps in this category — with multiple instances of people being defrauded of hundreds of crores having emerged — the way it has against real money fantasy gaming apps, […]
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has summoned executives of social media platform Twitter for a hearing, a day after a former executive of the platform alleged that the Indian government had “forced” Twitter to hire individuals who were “government agents” and had unsupervised access to vast amounts […]
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Twitter’s high-stakes legal battle against some of the Indian government’s content blocking orders has been brought up in a different high profile case — that of the platform’s lawsuit in the US against Tesla CEO Elon Musk over pulling out of his $44-billion bid to buy the social media company. Musk has accused Twitter of […]
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Taking the first step towards rolling out 5G services, the government has invited bid applications for spectrum auctions starting July 26 (changed from next month) after the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal to auction over 72,000 megahertz (MHz), or 72 GHz, of airwaves with a validity period of 20 years. The auction will […]
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