On banning real money gaming firms, IT Secretary S. Krishnan tells me: "The industry has been saying they wanted clarity on how they should be regulated ... So that clarity has been provided."

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly bills are getting passed recently. I thought the Telecom Bill that was passed 2023 had limited discussion but the Gaming Bill takes the cake for digital regulation with no discussion

#Thread on crazy scenes from #RajyaSabha where #OnlineGamingBill2025 was passed WITHOUT any debate, just like in #LokSabha yesterday. See video👇just when a BJP MP starts speaking on the #OnlineGamingBill2025, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rijiju cuts her to say that, there is

New rules from the Department of Telecommunications #DoT could change how #telecom services are verified & transferred! Blood relatives only for #SIM #transfers? #KYC with #BiometricID like live photos. Read on to know more. medianama.com/2025/09/223-do…

$ASTS: Prafulla Kumar, Vice President and Product Head at Reliance Jio cites 3 main issues with direct-to-device, all of which are solved by AST SpaceMobile's advanced satellite architecture and beamforming technology: 1) Closing the link budget (power gains and losses from

India’s new draft #network #authorisation rules make #IXP authorisation mandatory — but scrap TRAI’s proposal for blocking #URLs at the network level. Here’s why this 20-year authorisation with strict norms and no fees matters. #InternetExchangePoints medianama.com/2025/10/223-do…

YouTube has rolled out likeness detection for creators, allowing them to monitor where their facial likeness appears on the platform, and request removal of unauthorised or AI altered videos. Most importantly, YouTube now treats “likeness” as a privacy issue, covering both video

I think this is one regulation that Narendra Modi will have to get reversed. It's terrible for India and Indian startups. Adds red tape for user verification. Someone will need to go to court to challenge the idea that just because you use a mobile number to verify users the

Note for journos reporting on tech policy in India: a "Think Tank" refers typically to an NGO or non profit org. Most orgs you're referring to as think tanks in reporting are private co's mostly representing client interests without disclosing. Many are masquerading as civil

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notifies the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, notifying the long-delayed DPDP Act, 2023.

Real time location tracking for children's safety is one of the exemptions from obtaining verifiable parental consent under dpdp rules

India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM (Kamya Pandey / MediaNama) medianama.com/2025/11/223-do… techmeme.com/251130/p1#a251… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

The government has observed that some apps using mobile numbers for customer validation allow access even when the underlying SIM is not present in the device. scroll.in/article/108889… The government argues that this creates vulnerabilities exploited from outside India to commit

With the cybersecurity rules amendment finalised, I don't know if they will have much of a choice but to implement.

There’s a fundamental shift in how the Internet works taking shape right now. This week, Anthropic has opensourced the Model Context Protocol and Google has “industrialised” it. The foundations of how AI agents will interact with the entire Internet are quietly being put into