India's population, poverty and consumption data are missing, experts allege political manipulation

Several important datasets that help in formulating government policies have not been released for over two years.

Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 10, 2023 · 01:30 pm

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

Under the rules, service providers will have to store user details locally and comply with government requests to disclose information.

Shahzeb Mahmood

· Sep 23, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Why a whistleblower’s allegations about a ‘government agent’ at Twitter should worry all Indians

India has no data protection law, leaving the users’ information open to misuse even as the BJP-ruled Centre has tried to silence critics on the platform.

Karnika Kohli

· Aug 30, 2022 · 06:30 am

After Roe v Wade reversal, women in the US are right to be wary of period-tracking apps

Digital data may well be used to identify, track and incriminate women who seek abortion.

Uri Gal, The Conversation

· Jun 29, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Cautionary tale: The Taliban could get access to Afghans’ biometric data collected by the US

Here’s why this could be a lesson in the life-and-death consequences of data privacy.

Margaret Hu, The Conversation

· Sep 01, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Instagram’s redesign shift toward shopping can be harmful to its users

Features like the Shop tab facilitate surveillance capitalism.

Nazanin Andalibi, The Conversation

· Dec 31, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Indian government forms expert panel to examine alleged Chinese snooping on politicians

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar wrote to Congress leader KC Venugopal that the ministry has taken up the matter with the Chinese envoy.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 17, 2020 · 10:24 am

Facial recognition: As airports in India start using the technology, how will it be regulated?

While Indians have the right to privacy, there is still no law to protect their data from misuse.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Jul 23, 2019 · 09:00 am

‘Unlawful’ online content: Centre says it has started consulting stakeholders on draft rules

The draft proposes to make it compulsory for online platforms to help the government trace the origin of ‘unlawful content’ whenever requested by authorities.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 25, 2018 · 03:23 pm

Draft rules want web platforms to help government trace, remove ‘unlawful’ content: Indian Express

This could potentially require platforms to break end-to-end encryption of data to help trace the origin of messages.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 24, 2018 · 11:53 am

Quora says about 100 million users may have been hit by a data breach

The cause of the breach, which was detected on Friday, is being investigated.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 04, 2018 · 05:00 pm

Marriott hotel chain says around 500 million of its guests may have been hit by a data breach

The company said hackers have accessed the guest reservation database of its Starwood brand of hotels such as Sheraton, Le Méridien and St Regis.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 30, 2018 · 08:49 pm