FSSAI takes penal action against Zepto, Amazon over food listings
MediaNamaby Ann Mary Peter·14d ago
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) announced on September 23 that it has initiated penal action against Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India, and Zepto for...
IRDAI wants insurers to stop hiding prices behind personal data walls; calls it a dark pattern - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Prabhanu Kumar Das·14d ago
IRDAI has proposed prohibiting dark patterns on insurance websites and platforms, including practices that require consumers to submit personal information before they can access basic product and...
OpenAI agent hacked Australian medical portal. Why was it disclosed three months later? - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·14d ago
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, read public and non-public files and wrote files to the internal server, Prime...
GST relief for assistive use of mainstream tech proposed
MediaNamaby Anjali Tripathi·15d ago
India recognises an assistive device by what it was built to be, not by what it does for the person using it. A wheelchair is on the list.
Privacy implications of all-day audio recording on Apple smartwatch
MediaNamaby Azdhan·15d ago
This year Apple will launch all-day-listening AI-powered features to their new Apple Watch series, according to the company’s support document (archived) published on September 10, 2026.
DPDP Rules Leave Data Privacy Gaps for Disabled Users
MediaNamaby Anjali Tripathi·15d ago
Section 9 of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, as enacted with enforcement pending, required a guardian’s consent before a company could process the personal data of a person...
Application-specific network slicing could breach net neutrality: BIF
MediaNamaby Prabhanu Kumar Das·15d ago
A fast lane for selected apps could amount to content discrimination, the Broadband India Forum (BIF) told the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), arguing that network slicing can coexist...
Blink Digital Sues Meta Over Disabled Business Accounts
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·15d ago
Digital advertising agency Blink Digital India has sued Meta in the Bombay High Court after it disabled four of the agency’s Business Manager accounts, the tool agencies use to run client ad...
ED files chargesheet against EaseMyTrip’s Nishant Pitti in Mahadev betting case
MediaNamaby Amit Singh·15d ago
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against EaseMyTrip promoter Nishant Pitti for his alleged involvement in the Mahadev online betting app money laundering case.
What we found while using NPCI's AI-powered MyUPI
MediaNamaby Azdhan·15d ago
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched AI-powered chatbot version of UPI Help, MyUPI.
Discord changes its age verification approach after backlash. What must users prove now? - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·15d ago
Discord will place every user in an age group by reading account signals such as how long the account has existed and which servers it belongs to.
Understanding why Amazon is blocking Meta’s Muse agent
MediaNamaby Nikhil Pahwa·15d ago
Note: This article was originally published on Reasoned and is being cross-posted on MediaNama. Read the original version here: [link].
BigBasket FY26 loss balloons to Rs 3,192 crore
MediaNamaby Amit Singh·16d ago
With Tata Digital-owned BigBasket intensifying efforts to expand its quick commerce business amid fierce competition from Blinkit, Instamart and Zepto, the online grocer is plunging deeper into...
What Pranit More's case at SC could mean for online free speech
MediaNamaby Azdhan·16d ago
The Supreme Court of India has sought the Haryana and Maharastra government’s responses to controversy around Stand-up comedian Pranit More’s crowd work in Gurugram in June 2026, according to the...
Manoj Bajpayee moves Delhi High Court for his personality rights: What does the petition argue? - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Prabhanu Kumar Das·16d ago
Actor Manoj Bajpayee has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection against what he alleges is the unauthorised commercial exploitation of his name, image, likeness, voice and other...
Why Merchants Are Pushing Back Against UPI MDR
MediaNamaby Amit Singh·16d ago
The new UPI Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework is drawing heavy resistance from fuel pump dealers, retailers and industry bodies, who argue that thin margins make the levy unworkable and could...
Who needs a drug licence when you order medicine online?
MediaNamaby Anjali Tripathi·16d ago
When a customer orders medicine through an app, the transaction looks like a single purchase. Legally, it can involve four separate entities: a licensed seller, a marketplace, a warehouse and a...
MeitY has no records of MIB's order aimed to counter 'fake content'
MediaNamaby Azdhan·16d ago
A response from an RTI filed by MediaNama revealed that Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has no information on record related to MIB’s July 27 ‘fake content’ order.
X Shows Government Post Restrictions, But What About India?
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·16d ago
X will now tell users, through its Under the Hood report, when it has limited their posts to comply with a country’s laws, and which country made the demand.
What changes for companies if AI incident reporting rules tightens
MediaNamaby Rohit Singh·16d ago
India plans to tighten requirements for reporting AI-related incidents, including the information companies must provide and the time they get to report them, The Economic Times reported on...
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