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Meta calls out spy firms for targeting 50,000 people across its platforms
The company's fight with the spy firms comes amid a wider move by American tech companies, US lawmakers, and President Joe Biden's administration against purveyors of digital espionage services, notably the Israeli spyware company NSO Group, which was blacklisted earlier this month.
Covid-19: Phones may hold key to catching up with the pandemic
Technology lawyer Rahul Matthan, who advised the Indian government in the development of the Aarogya Setu app, said the features in the application need to be looked at in the context of the circumstances of the epidemic.

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByBinayak Dasgupta
Analysis | Facial recognition will threaten individual liberty
The system is unreliable. Deploying it may institutionalise the discrimination of a diverse demographic of people

China’s PLA plays down India setting up new monitoring base in Andaman
The base is located close to the Malacca Straits, a narrow strip vital to China — and to world sea trade — as its navy expands its maritime influence.

Hindustan Times, Beijing | BySutirtho Patranobis
In Arun Jaitley’s stinging counter on snooping order, a reference to UPA’s 2009 rule
Union minister Arun Jaitley hit back saying Congress was crying foul over powers created by it when it was in government.
