Data Collection
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‘It’s not even hacking’: Private medical data of millions of Americans is freely available online
Even though US law mandates data privacy and experts have issued repeated warnings, confidential details including CT-scans and X-rays remain widely accessible.
Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
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Millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers exposed online
The database, which has now been taken down, was hosted on a server without a password.
Scroll Staff
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MySpace data loss shows that your content is never safe on the internet
It's a harsh lesson in not leaving your intellectual property unprotected on the information superhighway.
Paul Royster, The Conversation
Trending
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Real-life ‘Terminal’: How people manage to live at airports for months and years
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In a first, J&K police goes after Kashmiris living outside India
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‘Audacious’, ‘A 100 for the ages’: Reactions to Rishabh Pant’s brilliant century in fourth Test
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Julio Ribeiro: By arresting Disha Ravi for sedition, the government is tilting at windmills
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With new OCI notification, India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship
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What ails India’s bedrock health survey: Exploited field workers, badly designed questionnaires
Many gaps need to be addressed in planning the fifth National Family Health Survey.
Sylvia Karpagam
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Indian government made more requests for user data from Twitter in 2018 – and faced more rejections
According to the micro-blogging site’s transparency report, Indian authorities issued 355 requests till June, 26% higher than a year ago.
Aria Thaker, qz.com
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Internal Facebook emails show it gave some companies special access to user data
The documents were released by a British MP on Wednesday.
Scroll Staff
Video
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‘There’s a lot that’s been lost’: First look at Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle, Prince Harry
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Watch: Johny Lever’s #DontTouchMe challenge with his children is wildly popular on the internet
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Watch: Farooq Abdullah dances to ‘Aaj Kal Tere Mere Pyar’ with Punjab CM Amarinder Singh
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Watch: Ravish Kumar raises questions about IT raids at Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap’s properties
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Watch: After man brings out pistol to rob a store, shopkeeper fires his own revolver at him
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Two US Senators urge PM Narendra Modi to adopt ‘light touch’ on data localisation policy
The Reserve Bank of India has asked all payment system operators to ensure data is stored within the country by Monday.
Scroll Staff
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Delhi’s move to collect Aadhaar, voter IDs of families of school students raises concerns
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia says the data will be used to identify students from outside Delhi. But experts allege AAP wants it for targeted election campaigning.
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Reality check: Cambridge Analytica saga is a reminder that surveillance is fundamental to capitalism
If people wish to regain at least some control over their personal data, they must challenge platform capital as a whole, not just individual players.
Ivan Manokha, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘7 Kadam’ trailer: Ronit Roy and Amit Sadh play father and son in football-themed show
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ review: Treachery and remorse in drama about the Black Panther Party
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In ‘Notturno’ documentary, vignettes of war and the eerie calm between the storms
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Charles Sobhraj mini-series ‘The Serpent’ heading to Netflix
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‘Thaen’ trailer: In Tamil film, a tribal beekeeping couple tackle apathy and poverty
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Facebook users may have to pay to opt out of their data being used for targeted ads: Sheryl Sandberg
The company’s chief operations officer acknowledged the social media website’s mistake for not checking whether Cambridge Analytica had deleted users’ data.
Scroll Staff
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TRAI claims users don’t know value of their personal data – leaving it open to misuse
The telecom regulator’s consultation paper on data protection covers issues such as data ownership, security of data and the role of a data regulator.
Mayank Jain
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Analytics firm hired by Republican Party exposes personal data of 198 million US citizens by mistake
The leak included sensitive information such as home addresses, phone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the US population.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Fantasy Premier League, Double Gameweek 27: Fixture difficulty, players to buy and captaincy options
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Swiss Open Super 300: Srikanth, Sindhu enter SF with straight-games win, Satwik-Chirag fight back
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Tennis: Sumit Nagal’s Argentina Open run ends in QF after three-set thriller against Ramos-Vinolas
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Watch: Rishabh Pant more than ready to fill MS Dhoni’s shoes, says Rohit Sharma
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Boxing: Bronze medal for Mary Kom at Boxam International after defeat in semi-final