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“Not a single digit of our data”: CJI warns Meta over WhatsApp privacy abuse

OpIndia Staff - 3 February, 2026

The Supreme Court warned Meta to follow India’s Constitution or "leave the country" during a hearing on WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy. Chief Justice Surya Kant called the platform's data-sharing practices a "mockery of constitutionalism," vowing to protect citizens from commercial exploitation.

Government and Policy

Govt cracks down on unauthorised sale of walkie-talkies on e-commerce platforms, 13 platforms issued notices, 8 including Amazon, Flipkart and Meta penalised

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2026

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has taken strong action against the unauthorised sale of walkie-talkies on several e-commerce platforms. In a major move...

News Reports

Meta allowed fraudulent Chinese advertisements to safeguard billions of dollars in revenue

Shraddha Pandey - 16 December, 2025

Meta remained reluctant to stop this abuse on its platforms to protect the huge revenues it was generating through the fraudulent Chinese advertisements.

News Reports

What is Meta Superintelligence and why is it important enough for Mark Zuckerberg to get personally involved in the hiring process

Rukma Rathore - 11 June, 2025

Leading researchers consider "superintelligence" to be a future objective of AI development.

News Reports

India and US extend support to ‘digital highways’ in Indian Ocean region, Meta’s project to build undersea cables: Here is what we know so...

OpIndia Staff - 14 February, 2025

India has made its commitment clear in terms of its investment in the maintenance, repair and financing of undersea cables in the Indian Ocean through trusted vendors.

News Reports

Meta to pay Donald Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts

OpIndia Staff - 30 January, 2025

Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations and other claims for suspending his Facebook and Instagram accounts

News Reports

Amidst uncertainty surrounding TikTok in the US, Meta lures TikTokers to Instagram and Facebook by offering cash rewards and other deals

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2025

Meta is luring TikTok creators over to its platforms with the promise of cash bonuses, content deals, and support to grow their communities

News Reports

Mark Zuckerberg permitted Meta to use pirated books to train its AI model, say authors accusing Meta of copyright infringement

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2025

Meta earlier admitted to using Books3, a dataset of 196,000 books, but it did not publicly disclose the direct use of LibGen data.

News Reports

Who in India is going to be most affected by Meta’s decision to do away with ‘fact checking’

Rukma Rathore - 9 January, 2025

Several companies that work as third party fact-checkers for Meta will go out of business as the social media giant is junking fact-checking and adopting community notes.

News Reports