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Internet cookies – what they are and how they affect online privacy
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Video: Does India’s data protection law undermine citizens’ right to know?
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· Apr 01, 2025 · 10:30 am
How the new digital data protection rules infantilise people with disabilities
Nivedita Krishna
· Jan 17, 2025 · 06:30 am
A Delhi High Court case could end up threatening how Wikipedia works in India
Vineet Bhalla
· Nov 05, 2024 · 09:00 am
Personal data of over 3 crore Star Health customers up for sale online: Report
Scroll Staff
· Oct 09, 2024 · 08:08 pm
Is WhatsApp included in new message interception rules? Experts are concerned about wide definitions
Vineet Bhalla
· Sep 01, 2024 · 06:30 am
The cost of justice: A legal clause that stopped Hugh Grant from taking his case to trial
Megan Shirley, The Conversation
· Apr 21, 2024 · 10:00 pm
Smart watches are not medical devices but are collecting all our health data
Pin Lean Lau, The Conversation
· Mar 01, 2024 · 10:00 pm
Electoral bonds: Will the government comply with the Supreme Court’s disclosure orders by March 13?
Shailesh Gandhi
· Feb 24, 2024 · 09:00 am
Flaw in Supreme Court’s electoral bonds verdict leaves room for another similar scheme to be floated
Rangin Pallav Tripathy Mrinalini Banerjee
· Feb 20, 2024 · 06:30 am
How a US law allows American intelligence agencies to spy on internet users across the world
Gurshabad Grover Anunay Kulshrestha
· Feb 19, 2024 · 09:00 am
How Modi government’s new criminal laws drastically increase police powers
Vineet Bhalla
· Jan 07, 2024 · 06:30 am
‘No data’ and other tactics: How the government is dodging RTI queries on health pacts with Big Tech
Anmol Mathur Shefali Malhotra
· Dec 09, 2023 · 09:00 am
In the age of artificial intelligence, a 1973 Supreme Court ruling threatens privacy rights
Prashant Khurana
· Nov 06, 2023 · 06:30 am
India is piloting ambitious digital health initiatives while neglecting data safeguards
Shivangi Rai Shefali Malhotra
· Oct 31, 2023 · 09:00 am
‘Privacy nightmare on wheels’: Driving patterns to facial expressions, cars are collecting data
Katharine Kemp, The Conversation
· Oct 19, 2023 · 10:00 pm
India’s data protection law does little for privacy while bolstering the state’s surveillance powers
Gayatri Malhotra
· Sep 26, 2023 · 07:30 pm
Why the right to privacy is incompatible with the right to information
Prashant Reddy T
· Aug 25, 2023 · 07:30 am
Sex-selective surgery without consent violates child’s dignity, privacy: Kerala High Court
Scroll Staff
· Aug 09, 2023 · 04:41 pm
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