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India’s role in data trade may be stymied

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INDIA

Outlook for India's information technology services sector.

New rules strengthen data privacy in China

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CHINA

Data privacy regulations in China.

Foreign firms resist India's data localisation plan

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INDIA

Reform of data policies.

Regulators will struggle to tackle data harvesting

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INTERNATIONAL

Some regulators, primarily in Europe and China, are cracking down on private firms collecting large volumes of users’ personal data and processing them for new purposes without…

Calls to audit social media algorithms will rise

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The problem of misinformation, polarisation and harmful content on social media has in recent years exposed the ineffectiveness of self-regulation by platform operators. Yet…

Social media will be key Nigerian poll battleground

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NIGERIA

Nigerian social media.

Content moderation issues on social media are evolving

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The fast pace of technological innovation, and the growing scale of user content, have made content moderation on social media increasingly difficult. Types of content under…

US state-level privacy regimes will expand

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UNITED STATES

These take to 15 the number of US states with consumer privacy laws in effect or pending. Five new state privacy regimes will come into force this year, four more…

Russian foreign influencer campaigns are evolving

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INT

In recent months, multiple European intelligence services have issued warnings of increased efforts by Russian state organisations to undermine social cohesion in Europe via…

Algorithms are insufficient to curb disinformation

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INT

However, such technical content filters struggle with the increasingly sophisticated and nuanced disinformation campaigns, involving activity from both automated bots and humans…