The number of cyber attacks in the country has witnessed three-fold increase over as many years, however, the funds meant for cybersecurity have been underutilised with only Rs 98.31 crore used of the total Rs 213 crore sanctioned.
This Amazon development comes after companies have been pulling down their ads and marketing campaigns from Twitter since the Tesla CEO took over the social media company in October.
"This may be for a limited time period in cases where they may be doing some kind of data modelling etc to develop their solution," the source, who did not wish to be named, said. The draft DPDP has proposed exemption only for government notified data fiduciaries and data processing entities when it comes to data collection, data sharing, giving information around data processing etc.
Elon Musk made the comments during a Twitter Spaces conversation on Saturday, adding that Apple is the largest advertiser on the social media network.
As the funding freeze lingers on, most start-ups are getting increasingly parsimonious with money and conserving cash. Several others, meanwhile, are laying off staff.
Google has announced that it is testing end-to-end encrypted RCS (Rich Communication Services) group chats, which will be available to some users in the open beta program over the coming weeks.
Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for 2022 in the Trade and Industry category, and was one of the 17 awardees earlier this year. He received India's third-highest civilian award in the presence of family members in San Francisco on Friday.
