At long last, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal might be the wake-up call forcing governments to devote to the social media companies the scrutiny they deserve.
Month: March 2018
Three weeks past its launch date, UIDAI remains silent on virtual ID | Business Standard News–23.03.2018
Almost three weeks after the promised release date of the specifications of the much-awaited double-layer virtual ID (VID) technology for Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority
Aadhaar data unbreachable as UIDAI blind, CEO tells SC: Top 10 developments | Business Standard News–
Trying to allay the fears over security and privacy of Aadhaar, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the Chief Executive Officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India
Bankruptcy matters – Business Line–23.03.2018
The fledgling Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is on stress-test. The ongoing resolution process for a clutch of well-known defaulters such as Bhushan Steel, Bhushan Steel
Privacy violations: Facebook’s abuse of personal data calls for tough regulation of tech megafirms
Facebook should pay a heavy price over revelations that it became an accessory for Cambridge Analytica (CA) to game US presidential elections and the Brexit
GST–5 platforms will ease GST return filing for SMEs–Deccan Chronicle–23.03.2018
Six months into the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, and still the teething problems persist. While stakeholders are trying to make sense of the
Row over ‘data theft’ a diversionary tactic
The law minister, who also holds charge of information technology, has been fulminating about summoning Facebook’s founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg to India to explain data theft
CA, Facebook & you – The Hindu
The controversy is a wake-up call to press ahead with a robust data protection law The world has just learned how a data analytics firm,
Is the economy back on track? – The Hindu
YES |Jagdish Shettigar Disturbances on account of demonetisation and GST were purely short term Looking at various indicators such as an increasing trend in the
Facebook has every right to make money but it shouldn’t deny it sells user data
There is always some distance between what a company says it does and what it actually does. For Facebook, it’s greater than most. Facebook’s business
Cambridge Analytica & the Aadhaar fiasco bear the same lesson for India
The FB and Cambridge Analytica scandal raises discomfiting questions about our relationship with technology and the implications for democracy and politics. Well, it finally happened.
Chinese cars: Second wave of Chinese goods could be invading your parking lot – The Economic Times–22.03.2018
SAIC Motor will introduce the Morris Garages (MG) brand in India in 2019. China has become synonymous with cheap goods in India. But that can
GST: Proprietors, LLPs, HUFs under CBEC scanner for claiming transitional credit – The Economic Times–22.03.2018
Proprietary businesses, LLPs and HUFs, which took registration under GST between October 2016 and June 2017, have come under the scanner of CBEC for claiming
AADHAAR case–Universe’s strength needed to break Aadhaar encryption: UIDAI CEO to SC | Business Standard News–22.03.2018
It wasn’t an easy day’s work for the Unique Identification Authority of India CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey as he gave a PowerPoint presentation on Aadhaar
Bankruptcy cases: Govt may allow more time to restructure as lawsuits mount | Business Standard News–22.03.2018
India may allow more time for the restructuring plans of defaulting companies to be approved, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as a
All that is needed is political courage to clean up PSBs’ governance | Business Standard Column–22.03.2018
The last edition of this column spoke about the unaddressed vital reform of ownership of public sector banks that is holding back governance of these
PNB blames concurrent auditor for not flagging off SWIFT transactions | Business Standard News–22-03-2018
State-owned Punjab National Bank has blamed the concurrent auditor at its Brady House branch in Mumbai for not detecting the Rs 129-billion scam related to
AADHAAR: What is the necessity of storing Aadhaar linked data, Supreme Court asks government – The Economic Times–22-03-2018
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central government that if Aadhaar was an instrument of establishing the identity of a person, then what was
Startup India: 60 per cent startups may fail amid lack of market: T V Mohandas Pai – The Economic Times–22-03-2018
All startups have a bright future, but 60 per cent of them may fail owing to lack of market and other factors, according to IT
Next wave of dud loans to originate from SMEs, warns Kotak – The Economic Times–22-03-2018
Noted banker Uday Kotak today warned that there is more pain lurking with the lenders from small businesses and called upon his peers to look
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