Oil and data don’t mix in world of Facebook and Ambani, The Telegraph, 13 Sept 2019

Facebook has squared off for battle against Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani over India’s tough data privacy regulations. On Thursday, Facebook’s vice-president for global affairs and communications Nick Clegg slammed India’s inward-looking policy of fiercely storing the repository of data gathered from its citizens within the country and stopping global corporations from mining it for…

India should frame guidelines to curb fake news on social media, Economic Times, 26 Sept 2019

With the growing incidence caused by fake forwarded messages through social media platforms, top legal experts have urged the government to come up with guidelines for regulating social media “within 3-4 weeks.” “It is important for India to frame a regulation that is effective in curbing fake news and making legal enforcement more effective. Such…