New Delhi: The personal details of citizens that have been uploaded on the government portal CoWIN during the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination programme have been made available on Telegram for anyone to access freely. Verified independently by Malayala Manorama newspaper and tweeted by Saket Gokhale, National Spokesperson, All India Trinamool Congress. Gokhale tweeted, “There has been … Read more
New Delhi: The personal details of citizens that have been uploaded on the government portal CoWIN during the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination programme have been made available on Telegram for anyone to access freely. Verified independently by Malayala Manorama newspaper and tweeted by Saket Gokhale, National Spokesperson, All India Trinamool Congress. Gokhale tweeted, “There has been … Read more
Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will now send show cause notices, summons and orders to securities law offenders via instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, a move that will make the processes speedier and efficient. This will be in addition to the normal mode of communication including electronic … Read more
Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has cracked down on market operators in Gujarat for allegedly manipulating stocks through social media, said two people familiar with the development. Officials of the capital markets regulator’s surveillance department carried out ‘search and seizure’ operations on the premises of three entities in Ahmedabad and Mehsana … Read more
A bot developed by two students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, sends alerts to users about open slots on the CoWin app, thus improving the chances of successfully booking a slot. Launched on May 4, the bot has garnered 60,000 users since. Developed by Rohan Rajpal and Paras Mehan, ‘CoWin Alerts’ … Read more
The presence and proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram continue unabated, and many groups that were flagged for such material are still active, a new study has found. CyberPeace Foundation, a cybersecurity think tank that conducted the study, also proposed a techno-legal strategy to tackle the issue, … Read more
HONG KONG: TikTok said Tuesday it will stop operations in Hong Kong, joining other social media companies in warily eyeing ramifications of a sweeping national security law that took effect last week. The short-form video app’s planned departure from Hong Kong comes as various social media platforms and messaging apps including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google … Read more