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‘Meta, YouTube and TikTok engaged in vast surveillance’, says FTC

Most of the companies collected users' age, gender, and the language they spoke. Many platforms also obtained information on education, income, and marital status.

The report states that the sites, which mostly offer free services, profited from the data by using it for advertising that targets specific users based on demographics.

Miscreants hack Supreme Court’s official YouTube channel

The program will roll-out starting with Flipkart and Myntra.

This hacking incident comes at a time when senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing West Bengal government requested to halt live proceedings of the RG Kar medical college rape and murder case.

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube under MIB’s scrutiny for violating content policy

Over the past ten years, the Indian government has requested Google to remove approximately 115,500 pieces of content from its platforms, including YouTube, web browser, etc.

From January to June 2023, Google received 2191 content removal requests from the government and 1677 content removal requests were received between July and December 2023.

Google leadership discusses setting up YouTube Academy in Andhra Pradesh

This is one of three significant fines levied on the company in the past decade. (Representative Image: via Unsplash)

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has also revealed plans for a comprehensive partnership with Google under the ‘AI for Andhra Pradesh, Powered by Google’ initiative.

YouTube keeps a close watch on Broadcasting Bill, ‘analysing it’, says Neal Mohan, CEO

India being one of the largest market for YouTube, has 11,000 Indian channels with over a million subscribers.

In its latest report, YouTube stated that it had taken down over 9 million videos in the December 2023 quarter, of which over 8 million were in violation.

YouTube steps up crackdown on ad blockers for mobile devices

Despite YouTube's policies requiring users under 17 to seek parental consent and linking accounts for those under 13 to a parental account, the lawsuit points out that it remains easy for minors to bypass these restrictions.

In a recent community post, YouTube announces enhanced enforcement against third-party ad-blocking apps violating its terms of service.

EXCLUSIVE: What moves India has the potential to shape the world, says YouTube’s Ajay Vidyasagar

"No creator says that I want to be a short-form creator or a long-form creator. They want to be storytellers and they want to express themselves and tell their stories in different forms," says Vidyasagar.

Ajay Vidyasagar, Regional Director, APAC, YouTube Partnerships, on Shorts’ story in India and more.

Just Sports; Some sports have all the luck

The IPL 2023 is scheduled to be played in the country starting this month, from March 31 to May 26. (Representative Image via Unsplash)

Live Sports will determine the course of how mankind consumes content on screens. It will also be a matter of survival for sports to move towards adaptive evolution. Why are some sports adored across the globe whilst others are withering away? What role does the partnership of federation, broadcaster, marketer and fans play? Shubhranshu Singh writes with the cumulative experience of an experienced sports marketer, administrator and sponsor.