It’s perhaps the best time to launch a social media company – with all the scrutiny about user data privacy and transparency of social media companies. However, one social media pioneer, doesn’t believe so. Orkut Buyukkokten, the eponymous founder of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYetxgR4bk&feature=youtu.be With the furore around the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal fresh in everyone’s minds, Facebook’s stock price has inevitably plummeted. From a high of $185.09 on NASDAQ on 16 March, it closed yesterday at $166.32. Is this stock correction a reflection…
In a recent update on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced that more than 87 million user’s data had been inappropriately shared with the firm. In the past, hackers had numerous indirect ways in which it could harness user data.…
Yesterday, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a committee from the UK House of Commons that the controversial company had “worked extensively in India.” More importantly, Wylie claimed that they had worked for Congress. Cambridge Analytica are a data analytics…
Over the past two days, I’ve read a lot of stories about how a company harvested 50 million Facebook users’ data and created psychometric profiles and targeted content and propaganda at them. Well, psychometric profiling based on user’s data is…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnnjR6tC9M&feature=youtu.be We talk to Ganesh Karri and Adam Cason of renowned cybersecurity firm FutureX about their entry into the Indian market, and the overall security issues and laws that they have to contend with. The former is FutureX’s Chief Solutions…
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton wants users to delete Facebook. In a post on micro-blogging platform Twitter, Acton said: “It is time. #deletefacebook.” Acton had co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum before selling it to Facebook in 2014. While Acton moved on…
In a Facebook group meant for startups in Bangalore, a post popped on Wednesday afternoon: “Bangalore data available for Rs. 100.” As a teaser, the message also had screenshots of several excel sheets, sorted city-wise: Bangalore, Mumbai, Lucknow and even Bhagalpur in…
If you are Indian and reading this, chances are you stumbled upon this story on Facebook.
India is Facebook country, make no mistake. There are more users from India on Facebook – 241 million active users, as of July 2017 — than from any other country. What’s more, Indian users are not just addicted to Facebook but other social platforms owned by the Menlo Park headquartered social networking company.
In the past week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in USA repealed its 2015 regulation forcing telecommunication companies to respect net neutrality. Considering that the original FCC decision prompted a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ruling on the issue two years ago, will this repeal force another discussion on net neutrality in India?