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.
Jun 03, 2022 12:59 IST
What is direct-to-mobile broadcasting, and what is the government doing to facilitate this...
Fri, Jun 03, 2022Jun 03, 2022 00:55 IST
The proposal has triggered concerns about the government overriding social media companies’...
Fri, Jun 03, 2022Jun 02, 2022 12:52 IST
ExpressVPN has removed its servers from India over the country's new cybersecurity rules. What has...
Fri, Jun 03, 2022Jun 01, 2022 03:45 IST
On November 1, 2021, Shashi Tharoor, who chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on...
Wed, Jun 01, 2022May 31, 2022 03:15 IST
The advisory was withdrawn by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Sunday on...
Tue, May 31, 2022May 29, 2022 15:43 IST
Clarifying on the issue, the ministry said that the UIDAI issued Aadhaar card holders are only...
Mon, May 30, 2022May 29, 2022 03:14 IST
Delivery workers say the new terms are forcing them to ride even faster with orders, and making...
Sun, May 29, 2022May 28, 2022 06:21 IST
CERT-In’s cybersecurity directive requires entities to report cybersecurity incidents to the...
Sat, May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 06:08 IST
Experts indicated the fresh draft could also face a pushback, given that private companies are...
Sat, May 28, 2022May 27, 2022 15:58 IST
Speaking at the Bharat Drone Mahotsav on Friday, Modi expressed optimism about the growing use of...
Fri, May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 03:18 IST
It is worth noting that Sherman’s comments are a reiteration of what Meta had intimated the US’...
Fri, May 27, 2022May 24, 2022 04:00 IST
The company acknowledged a shortage of delivery workers, saying many professionals, who left for...
Tue, May 24, 2022May 21, 2022 04:42 IST
While the report, titled ‘The State of Inequality in India’ was released by EAC-PM’s...
Sat, May 21, 2022May 19, 2022 15:25 IST
This is the second round of layoffs the firm has carried out in May after having handed pink slips...
Fri, May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 10:06 IST
Edtech firm Unacademy has announced its foray into the offline learning space by launching its own...
Fri, May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 05:31 IST
While launching clarifications on CERT-In’s cybersecurity norms, he said, “ If you’re a VPN...
Thu, May 19, 2022May 18, 2022 04:00 IST
Paytm Mall will buy the stakes at a lower valuation of nearly `100 crore, compared to its peak of...
Wed, May 18, 2022May 17, 2022 13:14 IST
Modi also said that whereas the 2G era was marked by “corruption and policy paralysis”, the...
Wed, May 18, 2022May 14, 2022 09:18 IST
The sharp crash in Luna, the sister cryptocurrency of algorithmic stablecoin Terra, has sent...
Sat, May 14, 2022May 13, 2022 15:06 IST
CERT-In is learnt to be working on releasing more details of the cybersecurity directive issued in...
Fri, May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 10:39 IST
Google has doubled down on artificial intelligence and machine learning development. Here are some...
Tue, May 17, 2022May 12, 2022 01:03 IST
India is a "unique" market in that the Supreme Court has ruled that cryptocurrencies can not be...
Thu, May 12, 2022May 01, 2022 01:29 IST
He also spoke about how the government plans to encourage domestic manufacturers to build capacity...
Sun, May 01, 2022Apr 30, 2022 05:23 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the inaugural session of Semicon India-2022 conference...
Sat, Apr 30, 2022Apr 30, 2022 04:14 IST
The norms also require virtual private network providers to preserve a wide range of data on their...
Sat, Apr 30, 2022