A tender floated by IRCTC also talks about studying ‘behavioural data’ such as flow of passengers, class of journey, frequency of journey, tracking passengers’ travel timings, booking timings, payment mode etc in a bid to monetise it
The Indian government on Wednesday rolled back the Data Protection Bill, which was first introduced in 2019 and had been in the works since 2018. IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that after much deliberations by the Joint Committee of Parliament, there were 81 amendments and 12 recommendations.
India is considering a data protection Bill that mandates Big Tech to store a copy of sensitive personal data within the country. Google’s Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright says such requirements could create impediments to the way the Internet operates.
The Commission has also emphasised that submission of Aadhaar by electors is "voluntary."
Experts talk about personalization of advertising and how effective it is in today's day and time.
PimEyes users are supposed to search only for their own faces or for the faces of people who have consented, owner Giorgi Gobronidze said. But added he was relying on people to act “ethically,” offering little protection against the technology’s erosion of the long-held ability to stay anonymous in a crowd
The April 28 directions had stated that VPN service providers would be required to maintain logs including names of customers, their IP addresses etc. for a period of five years.
The second beta of Android 13 will let you try out many features before official release
Earlier Balwant Singh had sent a notice to Ola Electric asking the company to take down telemetry data published on social media
With half of the country’s CCTV cameras, Telangana is the most surveilled state in India. The proliferation of CCTVs comes in the absence of laws to regulate their usage and amid privacy concerns
Experts worry the compliance requirements could be financially burdensome for companies; privacy issues too could become an issue
The couple, who live in London, took their neighbour to court for invading their privacy but lost the case.
The digital-detox pioneer who is also a futurist says that it’s time we take control of technology
Acton co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 but walked out in 2017 following differences with Mark Zuckerberg over the use of customer data. A year later, Moxie Marlinspike and he started the non-profit Signal Foundation, which oversees the messaging app
The 542-page report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, was tabled in Rajya Sabha, demanding greater accountability from social media platforms.
DuckDuckGo, in its internal tests, found that more than 96 percent of some of the most popular free Android apps have third-party trackers that most users are unaware of.
The government set up a committee headed by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan to regulate non-personal data. The idea was to set up a framework to unlock the economic value of this data and also address concerns arising out of such data.
The changes to digital advertising can only be survived by a willingness to change, unlearn and relearn.
Kim Kardashian made a strong statement to express a desire for privacy in these overexposed times, say fashion designers.
WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart's tweets come after Apple announced that it will start scanning iPhones in the US for child abuse material.
Most of these employees were fired for violation of user data between 2018 and 2020
Regularly rebooting phones won’t stop cybercriminals or spy-for-hire firms, but it can make even the most sophisticated hackers work harder to maintain access and steal data from a phone.
The pending Personal Data Protection Bill has become more relevant amid the alleged 'Pegasus Project' snooping revelations, an issue that has rocked Parliament with Opposition members disrupting proceedings.
The petition was filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation on behalf of TM Krishna, a Carnatic music vocalist from Tamil Nadu, challenging the new IT rules. The matter will be heard in four weeks.
Apple announced a lot of new privacy features for its devices at WWDC 2021, here is a quick rundown.