{
  "id": 16526090,
  "title": "EC refuses to give details of SIR software, cites ‘trade secrets, IPR'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/ec-refuses-to-give-details-of-sir-software-cites-trade-secrets-ipr",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-25T21:34:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ec-refuses-to-give-details-of-sir-software-cites-trade-secrets-ipr/articleshow/135197575.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Election Commission of India declined to share the name of the software used for identifying electoral roll errors. The request for information was made under the Right to Information Act. A social activist from Telangana sought details about the software and algorithms used in the process. The Commission stated that no new software was developed for the exercise conducted.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}