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Industry hails passing of historic data protection bill

IANS - August 10, 2023

Leading industry leaders and stakeholders hailed the passing of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP) 2023 by the Parliament as it secured the Rajya...

Science & Technology

Google sued for allegedly stealing data from users to train its AI models

IANS - July 13, 2023

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...

Crime

Rajasthan Police arrest man for stealing lingerie company’s data on 15L women

IANS - June 6, 2023

In a shocking revelation, Rajasthan Police Special Wing arrested a man who stole personal data of 15 lakh women from a company selling online...

World

Need tougher laws to tame Big Tech from collecting personal data: Joe Biden

IANS - February 10, 2023

US President Joe Biden has hit out at Big Tech companies, saying it is time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop the Big Tech...

Media

SC directs WhatsApp to give wide publicity to its 2021 undertaking to Centre on privacy policy

IANS - February 2, 2023

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...

Media

After Delhi HC order, Telegram discloses details of users sharing infringing material

IANS - December 2, 2022

Pursuant to the Delhi High Court judgment of August 30 that courts in India can direct a messaging app to disclose the information of...

Media

An ex-Twitter engineer reveals how he was pressurized to capture private user data for sale to a Telco

Web Desk - November 10, 2022

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...

Media

Telegram founder again warns users to stay away from WhatsApp

IANS - October 7, 2022

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...

Law & Policy

WhatsApp privacy policy: New data protection Bill is underway, Centre tells SC

IANS - October 1, 2022

The contentious Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill 2019 has been withdrawn and a comprehensive data protection Bill is being prepared, the Centre told the...

Law & Policy