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Whats App 'Username' Feature: Meta Says Phone Number Still Required, Cites Fraud Safeguards Amid Centre Notice

3+ hour, 3+ min ago  (156+ words) Meta Defends Whats App Username Feature as India Warns of Cybercrime Risk Meta has defended the rollout of usernames on Whats App, days after the Indian government said the new feature could lead to a rise in cybercrime and directed…...

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Facial Recognition Technology Has Come to India But a Law to Regulate It Has Not

3+ hour, 52+ min ago  (513+ words) There is no law which specifically regulates FRT in India and, arguably, its deployment in public spaces may serve a legitimate state aim " providing security to the public " yet a key question remains: Do alternative, less restrictive means exist to…...

The Hindu
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Watch: Explained: why is the Indian govt telling Whatsapp to put its new username feature on hold?

52+ min ago  (132+ words) The Hindu You are logged in You don't have any Active Subscription. Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Products you've access to…...

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Guest Opinion | John Williams: Democracy Requires More Than Celebration. It Requires Truth-Telling

1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (534+ words) As the nation prepares to celebrate its Semiquincentennial (try saying that three times really fast), Americans will gather beneath fireworks, wave flags, sing patriotic songs, and hear speeches about freedom, democracy, and the "wildly successful" American experiment. There is nothing…...

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India tells Whats App to halt usernames rollout

8+ hour, 28+ min ago  (374+ words) India has asked Whats App "to justify the implementation of a planned feature covering usernames and to freeze the rollout in its biggest market, escalating a crackdown on messaging anonymity that began with Telegram, according to a government "letter reviewed…...

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ICE's Face-Scanning Reach Has Widened Well Beyond the Border, Privacy Coalition Warns

6+ hour, 31+ min ago  (622+ words) inkl ICE's Face-Scanning Reach Has Widened Well Beyond the Border, Privacy Coalition Warns Three advocacy groups argue that federal immigration authorities now lean on biometric identification as the connective tissue of a much larger surveillance system " one that increasingly touches…...

Streamline
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Inside the $46 Billion AI Surveillance Network Replacing Trump's Border Wall

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (217+ words) The United States Department of Homeland Security is aggressively deploying a KES 5. 98 trillion network of artificial intelligence towers and ground sensors along the southern border, fundamentally transforming physical barriers into a digital surveillance dragnet. For decades, vast stretches of the…...

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The left and breaching capitalism's digital fortress

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (187+ words) mronline. org Making sure you're not a bot! You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause…...

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Magzter
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WHATSAPP USERNAMES UNDER CENTRE'S SCANNER | The Daily Guardian - newspaper - Read this story on Magzter. com

5+ hour, 8+ min ago  (410+ words) The Union Government has issued a notice to Meta over the proposed roll-out of Whats App's "usernames" feature in India and has asked the company to submit a detailed explanation within three days, sources said on Wednesday. This story is…...

The Wire
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Licence Raj For Software Features: IFF Says Govt Has No Legal Basis to Block Whats Apps Username Rollout

2+ hour, 58+ min ago  (496+ words) New Delhi: The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has said that the Union government's notice to Whats App, opposing the usernames feature in the platform doesn't have any clear legal basis and instead is clear interference by the executive into a…...