‘WhatsApp is a private app, don’t join it,’ says Delhi HC on plea against new privacy policy

Earlier this month, WhatsApp users received a notification that it was preparing a new privacy policy, and reserved the right to share some user data with FB.

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· Jan 18, 2021 · 03:00 pm

At least 36 Al Jazeera journalists ‘targeted’ in cyber attack with Israeli firm’s spyware: Report

The phones were allegedly hacked between July and August and can be traced back to the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

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· Dec 21, 2020 · 02:54 pm

Airtel updates privacy policy, denies collecting data on sexual orientation, political beliefs

The company claimed the changes were unintended and were made because of a drafting error on their website.

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· Oct 20, 2020 · 12:50 pm

The Jan Soochana Portal: A test case for balancing privacy and transparency

Anybody can access the ration records, pension records and public health insurance records for any citizen in Rajasthan who has availed of these programmes.

Prashant Reddy

· Aug 13, 2020 · 11:30 am

Privacy vs effectiveness: The challenges of developing coronavirus contact-tracing apps

Across the world, governments and health agencies want to control or centralise data.

Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, The Conversation

· Aug 12, 2020 · 09:30 pm

India’s surveillance technology is policing the data and bodies of its most vulnerable citizens

Sex workers and gender minorities, among others, fear loss of anonymity and stigma.

Anja Kovacs

· Jun 06, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Whatsapp spyware: Shashi Tharoor alleges Lok Sabha Speaker did not allow committee on IT to meet

The Congress MP said he had asked Om Birla if his order applied to other parliamentary panels also, to which he had said yes. But other meetings were conducted.

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· Dec 12, 2019 · 10:20 am

Parliament: Send Personal Data Protection Bill to joint select committee, says Centre

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the draft law should be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology that he heads.

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· Dec 11, 2019 · 01:52 pm

Now that India has a data protection bill, let’s talk about non-personal data

Non-personal data has economic value and can be utilised for better governance. What exactly is it?

Sreenidhi Srinivasan, qz.com

· Dec 10, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Reports of surveillance ‘completely misleading’, Ravi Shankar Prasad tells Rajya Sabha

The IT minister added that reports claiming the Aadhaar database included information of purchases and bank accounts were ‘baseless assumptions’.

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· Dec 05, 2019 · 07:48 pm

Not only WhatsApp, Indian journalists and activists were also targeted using email malware: Amnesty

A team of the human rights organisation discovered the cyber attacks last month.

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· Dec 05, 2019 · 04:23 pm

WhatsApp spyware attack: Personal data of 20 of 121 Indians targeted was accessed, says government

The government said this in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday in a written response to a question posed by Dayanidhi Maran.

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· Dec 04, 2019 · 06:00 pm