Google Receives Over 27,000 Complaints as per First Transparency Report under New IT Rules
Google has received over 27,762 complaints related to third-party content from users in India in April 2021, according to its first transparency report in accordance with the new IT Rules 2021.
Of the total number of complaints received by Google, 96.2 percent were related to copyright issues, 1.3 percent were related to trademarks, 1 percent to defamation, 0.4 percent were related to counterfeit issues and 0.4 percent related to circumvention. The number of removal actions taken by Google based on these complaints was 59,350.
Freshworks Appoints Randi Bryant as First Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Freshworks, a leading software company, has appointed Randi Bryant as the company’s first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. Bryant brings more than 20 years of experience to Freshworks, having helped large and complex organizations like Comcast, McDonald’s, the New York Transit Authority, and the US Department of State, to equip employees with the tools to foster an inclusive work environment.
Over the last year, Freshworks improved diversity across all levels, with women and people of color composing a majority of its recent leadership hires. Currently, 80 percent of its executive team are people of color and 20 percent are women. The company has more than 1,300 women employees globally and recently issued a pledge to increase representation of women in its workforce to at least 40 percent by 2023.
Tech Mahindra Partners with TAC Security for NextGen Enterprise Security
Tech Mahindra has partnered with TAC Security, a risk and vulnerability management player, to enable next-generation enterprise security for customers globally. The partnership will leverage artificial intelligence and user-friendly analytics to help measure, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities across the entire IT stack.
As part of the partnership, the global security competency of Tech Mahindra’s and TAC Security’s patented next-generation risk-based vulnerability management platform ESOF (Enterprise Security in One Framework) will be combined to accelerate vulnerability management protocol for customers thereby protecting their modern applications and infrastructure against cyber threats. The partnership will also help analysts to prioritize security responses and threat investigations in real time while improving security postures for enterprises across the world.
