Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy,...Read More
Soumyarendra Barik is Special Correspondent with The Indian Express and reports on the intersection of technology, policy and society. With over five years of newsroom experience, he has reported on issues of gig workers’ rights, privacy, India’s prevalent digital divide and a range of other policy interventions that impact big tech companies. He once also tailed a food delivery worker for over 12 hours to quantify the amount of money they make, and the pain they go through while doing so. In his free time, he likes to nerd about watches, Formula 1 and football.
Dec 09, 2022 14:22 IST
The proposed new law seeks to give news organisations more power to negotiate fees for content...
Fri, Dec 09, 2022Dec 08, 2022 02:09 IST
The official, however, said that the issue is close to resolution and the consignment could soon be...
Thu, Dec 08, 2022Dec 07, 2022 04:21 IST
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are learnt to have already committed to drawing in...
Thu, Dec 08, 2022Dec 05, 2022 11:19 IST
As the Bengaluru Police work on issuing a notice to Rapido over hiring a driver with a criminal...
Tue, Dec 06, 2022Dec 04, 2022 18:06 IST
The Twitter files claim to detail the decisions that were taken within the company in 2020, when it...
Sun, Dec 04, 2022Dec 03, 2022 11:18 IST
After touching a new high of Rs 12.11 lakh crore in October, the UPI transaction value for the...
Sat, Dec 03, 2022Dec 03, 2022 04:21 IST
The cyber incident that took place last month had brought the online management system of the...
Sat, Dec 03, 2022Nov 30, 2022 04:25 IST
Swiggy confirmed the shuttering of The Bowl Company, which had outlets in parts of Delhi and Noida,...
Wed, Nov 30, 2022Nov 28, 2022 13:10 IST
The setting up of 5G airwave infrastructure had raised various concerns about interference that...
Mon, Nov 28, 2022Nov 28, 2022 04:07 IST
These are expected to be part of an operational guidelines that the Department of...
Mon, Nov 28, 2022Nov 22, 2022 17:38 IST
A senior executive at the company said that Airtel decided to raise prices first in these circles...
Tue, Nov 22, 2022Nov 21, 2022 12:49 IST
On Saturday, Elon Musk started a poll on Twitter, asking if Trump’s account should be reinstated....
Mon, Nov 21, 2022Nov 20, 2022 17:08 IST
The reworked version of the data protection Bill, released three months after the Govt withdrew an...
Wed, Nov 23, 2022Nov 20, 2022 04:16 IST
The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, released Friday, proposes to impose...
Sun, Nov 20, 2022Nov 20, 2022 04:07 IST
He said that regions where data will be stored to be decided by the government on the basis of...
Sun, Nov 20, 2022Nov 19, 2022 04:14 IST
Centre to notify ‘data-secure’ regions to which data can be...
Sat, Nov 19, 2022Nov 19, 2022 00:47 IST
In the Bill, there are no specified safeguards around govt exemption, as has been prescribed in two...
Sat, Nov 19, 2022Nov 18, 2022 15:09 IST
If an entity fails to notify users about a data breach, the fine could go as high as Rs 200 crore....
Sat, Nov 19, 2022Nov 18, 2022 13:41 IST
'Finfluencers' are everywhere these days. Some have lakhs of followers online. But how qualified...
Fri, Nov 18, 2022Nov 18, 2022 04:19 IST
The Data Protection Board, an adjudicating body proposed to enforce the provisions of the Bill,...
Fri, Nov 18, 2022Nov 16, 2022 04:10 IST
The government is understood to be close to finalising the revamped Bill, internally being referred...
Thu, Nov 17, 2022Nov 15, 2022 17:22 IST
The significant downsizing is solidifying a feeling that the years of the bull market of the past...
Tue, Nov 15, 2022Nov 14, 2022 17:41 IST
VideoLAN also said that the VLC Media Player is being used by 80 million Indian users who would be...
Tue, Nov 15, 2022Nov 14, 2022 04:39 IST
Broadcasters had earlier told the government that they would require a minimum guard band of 100...
Mon, Nov 14, 2022Nov 12, 2022 11:39 IST
Here's a primer on Mastodon, how it is different from Twitter, and why users are choosing to join...
Sat, Nov 12, 2022