Digital Privacy
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‘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.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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Virat Kohli uses an 'MRF bat'. Rohit Sharma uses a 'CEAT bat'. But whose bat do they really use?
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‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day
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Caught on camera: How Deep Sidhu was chased away from the farmers’ protest at Red Fort in Delhi
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Satyajit Ray at 100: Why Sharmila Tagore considers ‘Devi’ her best collaboration with the master
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Whichever way you look at it, Modi’s handling of the farm laws has been a complete mess
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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
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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
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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
Video
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Watch: Teenager shows what British sitcoms would be like if set during the pandemic
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Watch: Mother surprises daughter with cancer by shaving her own head too
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Watch: Time-lapse of the snowiest day in over five decades seen in Omaha, US
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Watch: Doctors suture head injury of farmer under mobile phone lights after tractor rally
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Watch: Meet Simba, the first lion cub born from artificial insemination in a Singapore wildlife park
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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.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Scroll Staff
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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
The Reel
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Watch: AR Rahman launches ‘maajja’ platform to promote independent music
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Warner Bros releases sneak peek of ‘Suicide Squad’ sequel, new films with Hugh Jackman, Will Smith
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‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’: Series revisits LA hotel linked to several crimes
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‘Silk Road’ trailer: Crime thriller examines the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his darknet site
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ trailer: Disney animated film out in cinemas on March 5
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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’.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Scroll Staff
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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.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Watch: Bharat Arun on the difference in Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli’s captaincy style for bowlers
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ISL: Poor finishing, woodwork deny dominant Kerala Blasters a win against Jamshedpur
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Kerala High Court issues notice to Virat Kohli in a plea seeking ban on online gambling
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Watch: Don’t put too much pressure on Shubman Gill, allow him to develop, says Gautam Gambhir
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AFC Cup: ATK Mohun Bagan handed tricky group stage opponents in Maldives’ Maziya, Bangladesh’s Kings