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.

Scroll Staff

· 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

WhatsApp spyware row: Centre tells Rajya Sabha it did not indulge in ‘unauthorised interception’

Congress MP Digvijaya Singh demanded an inquiry by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the security breach, which affected 121 Indians.

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· Nov 28, 2019 · 07:13 pm

WhatsApp spyware: House panel agrees to discuss matter after Tharoor’s tie-breaker vote, say reports

The Bharatiya Janata Party members of the panel were against taking up the matter.

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· Nov 21, 2019 · 10:39 am

Did Centre use spyware to tap WhatsApp calls? Minister parries query, cites laws granting such power

The Centre said it has the power to intercept, monitor and decrypt any information in the interest of the country based on certain conditions.

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· Nov 19, 2019 · 06:58 pm

India’s requests for Facebook user data shoots up, now second only to US: Transparency Report

According to the social media company, the government made 1,615 ‘emergency requests’ in the first half of 2019, up from 861 in the second half of last year.

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· Nov 15, 2019 · 01:25 pm

WhatsApp hack: 19 of the Indians targeted ask Centre what it knows about privacy breach

The group of journalists, human rights activists and writers said the cyber attack violated their fundamental right to privacy and compromised their security.

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· Nov 08, 2019 · 02:47 pm