Razorpay gets shareholder approval to raise ₹2,700 crore via IPO, with OFS and pre-IPO placement plans. The fintech bets on AI, despite rising losses and intense competition. The post Exclusive: Razorpay gets shareholder approval for Rs 2,700 crore IPO appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

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As India debates social media restrictions for children, MediaNama’s Bengaluru roundtable will explore age verification, enforcement challenges, privacy concerns, and global regulatory lessons. The post Roundtable Announcement: Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children, Bengaluru, 15 May #NAMA appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

Data Subject Rights LinkedIn tracks the visits to profile pages. However, if you want to see who has visited your own profile, you have to pay. The Microsoft subsidiary uses these and other ‘insights’ as an incentive for people to sign up for its paid Premium membership. It is unclear...

Last September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country. The scheme aims to make it easier for people to prove their identities by creating a virtual ID on personal devices with information like names, date of birth, nationality...

By Saturday, Infrastructure’s chief information security officer Steve Proud confirmed that the hackers gained access to information about users at some educational institutions, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages between users.