Content moderators sue Meta over alleged 'union-busting' in Kenya

The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union.

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Google denies destroying 'chat' evidence in US antitrust lawsuit

The Justice Department last month alleged Google failed to preserve certain internal corporate "chat" communications.

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'Negative list' for data transfer in works; Flipkart’s reshuffle & Amazon layoffs

The government may come up with ‘negative list' of countries where cross-border data flow will be disallowed, the minister of state for electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar told ET. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Flipkart rejigs its top deck amid exits and cost cutting

Typically, Flipkart rejigs its VP-level roles every three years to allow executives to head different businesses, according to another person aware of the matter.

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Twitter to no longer support two-factor authentication for free users

Starting Monday, the security feature will only be available for Twitter Blue subscribers.

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India tops the list of South Asian nations with most data requests from Big Tech firms: report

The research showed that globally, countries requested more than 6.6 million accounts combined between 2013-2021, while India requested 823,000.

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Digital literacy: educators, researchers join hands to tackle online misinformation

There's a growing movement of educators and misinformation researchers working to offset an explosion of online misinformation about everything from presidential politics to pandemics

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