Madras High Court
Tech companies push back against India’s plan to link social media accounts to Aadhar state identity numbers
The state wants social media usage tied to identity.
Tik Tok’s removal then return to the App Store in India shows how the App Store increasingly controls the internet
App-stores acting like border control, governments censoring users, on apps that impose “content filters” while covertly harvesting our data.
The fastest-growing worldwide app TikTok just got banned in India
They said the app was encouraging users to produce pornographic and otherwise elicit content.
India proposes “the most sophisticated ID program” on the planet, to include a citizen’s Facebook, Twitter and biometric data
An unnamed government official has been cited as saying that the goal of the reported initiative was “to maintain the balance between an individual’s need for privacy while ensuring we don’t encourage negative things on the internet.”