Tech giant Google has launched its first India-focused cohort of the Newsroom Leadership program, in collaboration with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Surabhi Malik, Program Director, Google News Initiative India Training Network, announced in a blog post.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) is likely to approach various courts and tribunals including the Supreme Court, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), bringing to their notice the latest order by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that has put Amazon’s investment into a Future Group promoter company in limbo. The company is likely to ask the courts to ‘terminate’ all pending cases related to the sale of its retail assets to Reliance Retail, in the wake of the CCI order, two people familiar with the matter... Read More >
After almost two years of deliberations, the spotlight is back on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 against the backdrop of the Parliament’s ongoing winter session. A 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, tabled its report with recommendations to the Bill in the two houses of the Parliament on Thursday.
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.