Thursday, March 30, 2023

Indian government

Received 55,497 requests for user data from Indian government: Meta

India with 55,497 requests was once again second only to the US in terms of asking Meta to provide user data in the first half of this year, and the social network restricted access in India to 597 items...

Twitter bans 43,140 accounts in India for violating norms

Twitter, which is fighting a legal battle with the Indian government over content blocking orders, banned more than 43,140 accounts of Indian users in the month of June over violation of its guidelines, the microblogging platform said in its...

Hackers target national portal of India via ‘unprecedented’ phishing technique

Cyber-security researchers on Thursday said they have discovered an "unprecedented, sophisticated" phishing technique that has been targeting government websites across the world, including Indian government's portal https://india.gov.in, extorting the affected users. The threat actors have been targeting the Indian government's...

Govt asked data of 2.2K accounts in 1st half of 2021

The Indian government asked Twitter for data on 2,200 user accounts in the January-June 2021 period and the micro-blogging platform complied with just 2 per cent of the requests.There were also nearly 5,000 legal demands to remove Twitter accounts...