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Startup Street: Google India's new top boss, the rise of Mastodon and keeping tabs on data compliance

by Admin — last modified Nov 13, 2019 03:01 PM

Arindrajit Basu appeared on CNBC TV 18's Start Up Street discussing data compliance in the fall out of the Whatsapp-Pegasus incident.

Former Disney head Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as country manager for Google India and Startup Street tells you what he brings to the table.

Mastodon is a free and open-source social networking platform that was created in 2016. Startup Street will explain why it's trending and how it's different from other social media platforms.

Whatsapp Spyware attack has raised some serious concerns about privacy and the apps we use every day. A special discussion with Arindrajit Basu, research manager at Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Anand Prakash, founder of AppSecure.

Bengaluru-based Yashram Lifestyle Brands has filed a petition on contempt of court against lingerie retailer Clovia.com for continuing to manufacture products infringing on patents and against Myntra for selling the products on its platform.

This was published by CNBC on November 8, 2019. Arindrajit explicitly plugged this report by Aayush and Shweta and discussed some of his work on export controls in chapter 3 here.

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