Morning Digest: September 21, 2022

Morning Digest: September 21, 2022

China remains a formidable challenge, says Navy chief China remains a formidable challenge and has increased its presence not only along India’s land borders, but also in the maritime domain by leveraging anti-piracy operations to normalise its naval presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), Navy chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar said. Speaking at a separate event, Army chief General […]

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Whistleblower complaint: House panel summons Twitter executives

Whistleblower complaint: House panel summons Twitter executives

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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Whistleblower complaint: House panel summons Twitter executives

Whistleblower complaint: House panel summons Twitter executives

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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Parliament panel calls IRCTC and Twitter officials over citizens’ data security, privacy

Parliament panel calls IRCTC and Twitter officials over citizens’ data security, privacy

The IRCTC, which has more than 10 crore users, of which 7.5 crore are active users, has floated a tender to hire a consultant to monetise its passenger and freight customer data with the aim to generate revenue up to ₹1,000 crore The IRCTC, which has more than 10 crore users, of which 7.5 crore […]

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