Government plans to monitor individual social media users to gauge opinion about official policies

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· May 25, 2018 · 09:00 am

Indian government requested for data over 12,000 times in second half of 2017, says Facebook

Scroll Staff

· May 17, 2018 · 11:59 am

Reality check: Cambridge Analytica saga is a reminder that surveillance is fundamental to capitalism

Ivan Manokha, The Conversation

· May 06, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Facebook gets into dating, but there’s little scientific evidence online personality matching works

Evita March, The Conversation

· May 04, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Government website leaked 1.3 lakh Aadhaar numbers, linked them with caste, religion: Researcher

Scroll Staff

· Apr 24, 2018 · 07:06 pm

As Facebook stumbles, Orkut’s founder says ‘hello’ to India once again

Sushma UN, qz.com

· Apr 19, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Shadow profiles: Facebook knows about you, even if you’re not on Facebook

Andrew Quodling, The Conversation

· Apr 14, 2018 · 11:30 pm

New Firefox extension will stop Facebook from tracking users’ online activity, says Mozilla

Scroll Staff

· Mar 28, 2018 · 05:14 pm

Cambridge Analytica dismisses whistleblower’s claims as false and speculative

Scroll Staff

· Mar 28, 2018 · 02:58 pm

United States: Three users sue Facebook for storing their call and message logs

Scroll Staff

· Mar 28, 2018 · 01:52 pm

Why the Facebook data leak is like passive smoking: the bad habits of others can hurt you

Girish Shahane

· Mar 28, 2018 · 08:00 am

‘We give fingerprints, get naked for the white man, but question Aadhaar,’ says Union minister

Scroll Staff

· Mar 25, 2018 · 08:57 pm

Facebook stored users’ phone call and message logs in older Android versions, says report

Scroll Staff

· Mar 25, 2018 · 02:52 pm

Indians can monetise their data to get better healthcare and easier loans, says Nandan Nilekani

Scroll Staff

· Mar 23, 2018 · 11:27 am

In age of big data, routine information can be sensitive – and Indian law doesn’t protect us enough

Malavika Raghavan

· Mar 20, 2018 · 08:00 am

Indian apps are seeking way too many ‘dangerous permissions’ on your phone

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Dec 27, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Over 200 government websites publicly displayed details of Aadhaar users, says UIDAI

Scroll Staff

· Nov 19, 2017 · 01:50 pm

Facing backlash, OnePlus says it will ask users for consent to collect data from phones

Scroll Staff

· Oct 15, 2017 · 01:57 pm

Can a national facial recognition database protect countries from terrorism?

Bruce Baer Arnold, The Conversation

· Oct 09, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Data protection: Can India overcome the spy-security state and big tech to enact a strong law?

Prashant Reddy

· Aug 22, 2017 · 07:30 am