Can WhatsApp fix its payments business in India?
The messaging giant is a minnow when it comes to payments. Relief from NPCI could be just the fillip it needs to finally take on leaders PhonePe and Google Pay.
How top Meta executive Shivnath Thukral has links with a firm that works for Modi and BJP
The firm, Opalina Technologies, was involved in the #MainBhiChowkidar campaign. Shivnath Thukral owned stake in this firm, and his father continues to do so. Shivnath Thukral, a public policy director, India, at WhatsApp Inc (owned by Facebook, now known as Meta) since March 2020, had once owned a stake in Opalina Technologies – a company that has provided software solutions for India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the prime minister’s office, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
What to do in the age of whatsapp spyware attack
Some things to remember amidst this WhatsApp hack sensation: The government may not actually have in any records, data on who all have been targeted for illegal surveillance and accessing of their devices. Such unauthorised surveillance – conducted by private contractors – is never directly contracted by police/IB etc. Front organisations, like the one that issued the invitations to European MEPs to visit Kashmir, set up by individual officials via their proxies are the ones that contract the surveillance contractors.
Election Commission Failed to Curb Fake News Online Before 2019 Lok Sabha Polls
Caught in the midst of a high-stakes battle on the future of regulating the internet, the EC tried and failed miserably to regulate online propaganda, political campaigning, and fake news prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a recently released report has revealed. The committee set up by ECI examined critical gaps in regulation of political campaigning on social media.