Articles by Binayak Dasgupta
Google flags off Make in India with latest Pixels in 2024
Union minister for electronics and technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said the decision was “good for Google and good for India”

Published on Oct 20, 2023 09:19 AM IST
Google plans new security steps to tackle online scams
Google said it will leverage its AI models, especially those around generative text, to help Indians access information and business opportunity better

Updated on Oct 19, 2023 09:28 PM IST
Legal framework for privacy as RS clears digital data bill
While it is unlikely to take long for the bill to receive presidential assent — at which point it becomes law — the next steps will likely pan out over at least a year’s window

Updated on Aug 10, 2023 12:19 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaData Protection Bill 2023 tabled in Lok Sabha, here's what govt, Oppn are saying
The data protection law started its life as the personal data protection bill as drawn up in August 2018 by a committee headed by former Supreme Court judge.

Updated on Aug 04, 2023 03:35 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaExperts wary as data bill set to be tabled
The latest draft retains a clause that allows the government to “exempt any data fiduciary” from the obligations within five years of the law coming into force.

Updated on Aug 03, 2023 02:16 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaDeep divides on social media, but algorithm tweaks may not help: Study on FB, Insta
The experiments showed there were no easy answers — ideological divides were deep, and just changing algorithms did not help address them

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:12 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaCopycat websites surge 300%; India a hunting ground: Report
According to the Digital Risks Trend 2023 report, there was a 304% year-on-year increase in the number of scam websites that impersonated legitimate businesses.

Updated on Jul 13, 2023 02:08 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaGoogle working on tech to discern AI-made content: Company executive
Google is developing systems to identify AI-generated synthetic media and combat political misinformation.

Updated on Jul 07, 2023 12:08 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak DasguptaAn open letter: On wildfires and pollution
Canada is experiencing an unprecedented year of fires, with the smoke shrouding cities in the US and, over 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, in parts of western Europe

Updated on Jun 28, 2023 05:56 AM IST
CoWIN ‘data leak’: How a bot reignited privacy fears
The screenshots also carried details that purported to show where these people would have had their latest Covid-19 vaccine doses

Updated on Jun 13, 2023 10:21 AM IST
Centre plans to rope in private companies to help secure govt servers, websites
The government’s IT services are managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts 3.3 million email accounts and maintains more than 10,000 websites and services

Updated on Mar 17, 2023 04:10 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak Dasgupta and Sunetra ChoudhuryHT Interview | Paying up to ransomware attackers bad strategy…: Dmitry Volkov
Dmitry Volkov, the CEO of cyber threat intelligence firm Group-IB says, ransomware remains a threat number one for public and private companies around the world. They have a strong focus on big enterprises that can afford to pay ransom and cannot afford any downtime.

Updated on Mar 06, 2023 12:25 PM IST
Binayak Dasgupta, New Delhi
‘China’s Covid wave worse than estimated, peak of 36k deaths a day likely’
China re-opened its borders on January 8 after having abruptly ended its so-called Zero Covid policy of frequent testing, travel curbs and mass lockdowns the month before, prompted by unprecedented nationwide protests

Updated on Jan 17, 2023 10:06 PM IST
The year ahead: Glimpses into 2023
India, the world’s largest democracy and one of the world’s largest consumer markets, will likely begin working to pass new laws too, with lasting implications for companies such as Meta, Google and Twitter.

Published on Dec 31, 2022 06:14 PM IST
The year ahead: Can it be tech to the rescue?
Breakthroughs in nuclear fusion and CO2 conversion could revolutionise the power sector, but this could take a few decades. New approaches to food production are welcome. As the climate crisis intensifies, now amid the Russian war in Ukraine, this will be a crucial year for talks

Updated on Dec 31, 2022 06:01 PM IST
The Covid-19 shadow still looms
With the virus now sparing no one, Long Covid was a serious problem to deal with, which easily was the most important implication of how the pandemic had changed in its third year.

Updated on Dec 31, 2022 12:12 AM IST
A million infections and 5,000 deaths a day from Covid in China: Study
The new estimates were provided by London-based Airfinity, which predicted cases to continue to rise in China with two likely peaks, one in mid-January and the second in early March.

Updated on Dec 23, 2022 05:17 AM IST
A new chapter in ‘Twitter Files’
American journalist Bari Weiss posted a Twitter thread to allege the company, under its old management, created secret blacklists of users whose reach was restricted, the second instalment in what is now being called the Twitter Files.

Published on Dec 10, 2022 12:23 AM IST
Binayak Dasgupta, New Delhi
Ransomware attackers say AIIMS ‘deadline’ has ended
The warning came from an email address known to authorities and is a part of the investigation, although HT could not independently verify whether the people replying from it were indeed behind the hack.

Updated on Dec 06, 2022 09:00 AM IST
Binayak Dasgupta, New Delhi
‘China risks 1.3-2.1mn lives if it ends zero-Covid strategy’
Science analytics company Airfinity used trends from Hong Kong’s Omicron (BA.1) wave as a proxy for how an outbreak could play out in China, where protests have erupted across the country over the stifling Covid-19 containment strategy.

Updated on Nov 28, 2022 11:42 PM IST
Ransomware attack: Cyber terrorism probe as AIIMS services paralysed
According to a police officer, the preliminary investigation has hinted that the cyber attack may have been perpetrated from outside India.

Updated on Nov 25, 2022 02:43 AM IST
New data bill at odds with privacy ruling, say experts
The Union ministry for electronics and technology shared the Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022, on Friday for public comments and the proposal is likely to be brought to parliament in the upcoming winter session.

Updated on Nov 19, 2022 05:54 AM IST
, New Delhi
Deeksha Bhardwaj and Binayak DasguptaData bill eases transfer rules, raises penalties
The Centre on Friday unveiled the Digital Data Protection Bill for public consultation, having redrawn a long-delayed law that will provide the legal framework for the fundamental right to privacy of Indian citizens with major implications for tech companies and digital businesses.

Updated on Nov 19, 2022 05:58 AM IST
, New Delhi
Deeksha Bhardwaj and Binayak DasguptaPollution raises risk of childhood stunting, leading to lifelong impact: Study
New Delhi: Children in parts of India with high air pollution are more likely to be stunted or severely stunted, according to a study that for the first time looks at how dirty air affects the development of children

Updated on Nov 04, 2022 02:14 PM IST
Winter Covid outbreak on the cards? Worry over converging virus strains
A new set of Sars-CoV-2 variants, all offshoots of the Omicron classification of the virus, appear to be picking up the same sort of genetic traits after following different evolutionary journeys, prompting concern among experts that it could portend the arrival of a “fitter” version that might lead to a spurt in cases in coming months.

Published on Oct 07, 2022 11:30 PM IST
Binayak Dasgupta, New Delhi
Legal protections for Big Tech need review
While Joe Biden’s intent is positive, it remains devoid of specifics of how any of this will happen, especially given the partisan divide in American politics on the issue

Updated on Sep 21, 2022 08:02 PM IST
Behind the troll storm over catch spilled against Pak
Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh was the target of vicious online trolling after his side lost to Pakistan in the Asia Cup game on Sunday night, with an anonymous user, possibly based in Pakistan, vandalising his Wikipedia page to claim he was linked to the separatist Khalistani movement.

Updated on Sep 06, 2022 10:28 AM IST
, New Delhi
Binayak Dasgupta and Deeksha BhardwajArshdeep Singh’s Wikipedia page vandalised to show Khalistan link, fixed later
Reports indicate that the crowd-sourced digital encyclopaedia may be asked to explain why these changes were done by the government of India

Updated on Sep 05, 2022 01:01 PM IST
Long Covid real, can last from 90 to 150 days: Study
Long Covid, a loosely defined set of conditions that people report after having caught Covid-19, is yet to be properly understood, either for the biology involved or its estimated prevalence.

Updated on Aug 05, 2022 12:07 PM IST
AlphaFold: AI tool predicts structures for nearly all-known proteins
Proteins are commonly referred as the building blocks of life, made up on some combination of amino acids. It is easy to identify a protein by its constituent amino acid, but this is just one-dimensional information

Updated on Jul 31, 2022 11:46 PM IST