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Data Privacy

Bangladesh’s new online content regulation rules threaten user privacy and free speech

Shahzeb Mahmood
· Sep 23, 2022 · 09:30 pm
India ranks second globally in cyber attacks on health systems – as government pushes digitisation

Tabassum Barnagarwala
· Sep 04, 2022 · 06:30 am
Why a whistleblower’s allegations about a ‘government agent’ at Twitter should worry all Indians

Karnika Kohli
· Aug 30, 2022 · 06:30 am
Centre asks not to share photocopies of Aadhaar, then withdraws advisory

Scroll Staff
· May 29, 2022 · 03:00 pm
WhatsApp indicates it will go ahead with privacy policy amid backlash

Scroll Staff
· Feb 19, 2021 · 12:37 pm
India’s surveillance technology is policing the data and bodies of its most vulnerable citizens

Anja Kovacs
· Jun 06, 2020 · 01:30 pm
The Daily Fix: Why is the BJP keeping its draft of the Citizenship Amendment Bill secret?

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
· Dec 06, 2019 · 09:30 am
‘It’s not even hacking’: Private medical data of millions of Americans is freely available online

Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
· Sep 22, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers exposed online

Scroll Staff
· Sep 05, 2019 · 01:37 pm
A privacy cop won’t make a big difference to the way Facebook handles user data

Bhaskar Chakravorti, The Conversation
· Aug 01, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Why FaceApp probably isn’t fretting about bad press worldwide

Mark Giancaspro, The Conversation
· Jul 26, 2019 · 09:30 pm
The Daily Fix: Without privacy law in India or surveillance reform, facial recognition is dangerous

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
· Jul 24, 2019 · 09:30 am
Watch: ‘How do you know what you know about me?’ Actor Channing Tatum accuses phone app of snooping

Scroll Staff
· Jul 14, 2019 · 01:00 pm
Google admits that its staff can listen to recordings on Google Assistant after data leak

Scroll Staff
· Jul 12, 2019 · 05:26 pm
WhatsApp discovers spyware that targets phones through its voice call function

Scroll Staff
· May 14, 2019 · 03:18 pm
What’s scarier than Uber and other apps collecting customer data? Using it to influence behaviour

Todd Haugh, The Conversation Abbey Stemler, The Conversation Joshua E Perry, The Conversation
· May 13, 2019 · 08:30 pm
To tackle its privacy problem, Facebook wants to be more like WhatsApp

Sacha Molitorisz, The Conversation
· Mar 14, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Facebook intentionally breached privacy laws, code of ethics required, says British MPs’ report

Scroll Staff
· Feb 19, 2019 · 09:26 am
Unprotected SBI server exposed customers’ bank account details, now fixed: Report

Scroll Staff
· Jan 31, 2019 · 01:49 pm
With new rules to snoop on online content, India is moving towards the Chinese model of surveillance

Apar Gupta
· Dec 24, 2018 · 02:01 pm