Bloomberg India considers ensuring timely delivery of food for millions of poor more important than heeding to concerns over privacy, the country’s top law officer said while defending the biometric identity programme. India’s Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the Supreme Court the unique digital identity program, called Aadhaar, “an enabler” to ensure food and other subsidies reach the poor and ...

Bloomberg European Union leaders demanded a permanent EU exclusion from US President Donald Trump’s metal-import tariffs and kept alive a threat to retaliate, highlighting persistent risks of a trans-Atlantic trade war. Citing national security, Trump imposed duties of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum while granting a five-week waiver to the EU, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia ...

Bloomberg The UK’s privacy watchdog searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica in the wake of allegations that information on millions of Facebook Inc.’s users was scooped up without their consent, widening a probe that cut the internet giant’s share price by more than 10 percent this week. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the search that began on March 23 ...