A day after Google announced its big five-year plan to invest Rs 75,000 crore in India, most of the newspapers splashed stories on the latest suit against the search giant.
Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out, was the headline in Indian Express. Its story talked about the latest data privacy violation suit slapped by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, against data collection even after users had turned off “Web & App Activity” tracking and when in Incognito mode. Looks like the same Reuters copy was published in leading news sites such as News18, Livemint and Times of India also.
Interestingly, a piece in The Print tried to lay out why the tech giants are turning to India. From self-reliance to helping the battered banking sector and the ready mobile payments ecosystem, this piece provided hints on where the proposed investments may end up or prove beneficial. Let us keep our fingers crossed.
But it does not ponder over whether "...Information collection, analysis and distribution is exactly what the U.S. internet companies do best" could pose data privacy problems for digitally illiterate users in a nation where a data privacy law has not yet been passed.
Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out, was the headline in Indian Express. Its story talked about the latest data privacy violation suit slapped by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, against data collection even after users had turned off “Web & App Activity” tracking and when in Incognito mode. Looks like the same Reuters copy was published in leading news sites such as News18, Livemint and Times of India also.
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But it does not ponder over whether "...Information collection, analysis and distribution is exactly what the U.S. internet companies do best" could pose data privacy problems for digitally illiterate users in a nation where a data privacy law has not yet been passed.
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