5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (455+ words) “The Press Club of India strongly condemns the suspension of the Instagram accounts of three independent journalists following their ground reporting from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, on a public health crisis involving the deaths of children from the Adivasi community.” The…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (248+ words) He said the SDK enables authentication within an organisation’s existing application rather than requiring users to switch between apps. “By bringing in AI-based liveness detection and instant authentication onto personal mobile phones, we have completely vanished the friction,” Yadav said....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (196+ words) What has happened so far The matter is WP(Crl.) 1326/2026, before Justice G. Girish. Meta Platforms, state authorities, a cybercrime police station and Kapikad are among the respondents. Bar and Bench reported. No takedown has been ordered. Advocates P.T. Sheejish and Ayonna…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (511+ words) Meta has told the Delhi High Court that it blocked the Facebook page of Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi after receiving a notice from a law enforcement agency, according to a Bar and Bench report. The page has remained…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (341+ words) The question confronting Android today is whether an operating system can still be meaningfully described as open when the rules governing participation in its ecosystem are increasingly determined by a single corporate actor. Can openness be measured simply by the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (891+ words) You can access the government advisory from here Five days later, Reuters found at least 39 such ads still running. Meta removed them on August 31 — after Reuters asked about them. The company did not respond to Reuters’ questions about the removal…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (271+ words) The provision was first proposed as part of amendments to the IT Rules released for public consultation on March 30. The Hindustan Times reported that a government official said that this is being considered and that a separate notification could ensure…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) A Maharashtra government committee has recommended amending the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) to cover defamatory social-media posts. The Indian Express reported that the committee was set up in May 2026 to examine legal options for dealing with defamatory content online. It…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (372+ words) Update (August 20, 2026; 4:03 pm): Meta has restored the two accounts specified in the Supreme Court order. However, the account that MediaNama identified (@aapjamnagar) is still blocked in India. Despite the SC’s August 17 order to restore Gujarat’s regional accounts of Aam Aadmi…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (411+ words) Note: The discussion was held under the Chatham House Rule. All quotes have been edited for clarity, brevity and anonymity. TRAI directed operators in February 2026 to share AI-detected spam signals across networks within two hours. A number flagged on one…...