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Data Privacy
Parents of kids who died due to social media angry at UK govt on online safety
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As the UK government gets prepared to debate on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in Parliament next week, parents of children who...
Industry hails passing of historic data protection bill
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Leading industry leaders and stakeholders hailed the passing of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP) 2023 by the Parliament as it secured the Rajya...
Google sued for allegedly stealing data from users to train its AI models
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Google has been sued in a class-action lawsuit that alleged that the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent using...
Need tougher laws to tame Big Tech from collecting personal data: Joe Biden
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US President Joe Biden has hit out at Big Tech companies, saying it is time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop the Big Tech...
SC directs WhatsApp to give wide publicity to its 2021 undertaking to Centre on privacy policy
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed WhatsApp to give wide publicity in the media that users aren't bound to accept its 2021 privacy policy...
Google settles 2 more location tracking lawsuits worth $29.5 mn in US
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Google has settled two more location tracking lawsuits worth $29.5 million filed in Washington, DC and Indiana states in the US.
The search giant is...
After Delhi HC order, Telegram discloses details of users sharing infringing material
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Pursuant to the Delhi High Court judgment of August 30 that courts in India can direct a messaging app to disclose the information of...
WhatsApp phone numbers of about 500 mn users leaked: Report
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WhatsApp phone numbers of 487 million users have been stolen and put on sale on a "well-known" hacking community forum, the media reported.
According to...
An ex-Twitter engineer reveals how he was pressurized to capture private user data for sale to a Telco
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With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build...
Telegram founder again warns users to stay away from WhatsApp
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Thursday once again claimed that hackers could have full access to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.
In a...