DATA PRIVACY

Will finalise data protection law very soon: Ravi Shankar Prasad

"We are going to finalise a data protection law very soon. India is waiting for its movement for data economy, data innovation, data refine...

Cyber insurance gains traction amidst Covid pandemic

Industry experts say that many cybercriminals are specifically targeting organisations to steal data and or gain access to certain sensitiv...

Apple suppliers chose to make in India even amid Covid: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad said during the pandemic, global smartphone manufacturers had committed investments of close to $1.5 billion (₹ 1.13 lakh crore) in ...

Representatives of Reliance Jio depose before parliamentary panel on data security

The Joint Committee of Parliament on the Personal Data Protection Bill, chaired by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, questioned Reliance Jio executiv...

Parliamentary panel questions Paytm about Chinese investment, storing of data in servers abroad

Members of the panel from different political parties asked Paytm why the server on which data of its customers is collected and stored is ...

Amazon executives depose before parliamentary panel, quizzed about revenue & tax paid in India

Days after Amazon refused to appear before the parliamentary panel on data protection bill, its top executives in India on Wednesday depose...

Parliamentary panel on data protection bill summons Jio, Airtel, Uber, Ola, Truecaller

A Joint Committee of Parliament issued a notice on Wednesday calling representatives of telecom operators Reliance Jio and Airtel and cab a...

Amazon India refuses to appear before Parliament panel on data privacy

E-commerce giant Amazon has refused to appear before the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Data Protection Bill on October 28 and this a...

Data protection: Parliament's joint panel summons Facebook, Twitter

The joint committee led by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has 20 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. The agenda of Friday's mee...

Jio unveils new, upgraded 'JioPages'; made-in-India mobile browser supports 8 Indian languages

Sources, meanwhile, said the previous version had seen over 14 million downloads and all those users would be upgraded to the latest versio...

JioPages: Reliance Jio unveils 'Made-in-India' mobile browser which supports 8 Indian languages

Reliance Jio has launched new, revamped `JioPages', its Made-in-India mobile browser that is available in eight Indian languages and promis...

Supreme Court issues notice to government, RBI, Google, Amazon, FB over UPI data security

The petition has sought court intervention to ensure that these companies did not misuse the personal data of users for anything other than...

View: India’s proposed data protection regulator needs strong safeguards

The Bill is currently under scrutiny by a joint committee of parliamentarians who are meeting stakeholders and are expected to submit a rep...

ETIG analysis: How Covid has exposed India's data-centric inadequacies

The Indian administration doesn't have data on how many migrant workers lost their lives during the crisis. There is no record of the numbe...

View: When it comes to digitisation, govt should first put its own house in order

There is much the government can do, to close the gaps in the digital ecosystem that have been shown up and, in the process, stimulate econ...

Nasscom paper on encryption calls for regulation on data handling by law enforcement agencies

It also raises questions on whether there are any gaps in the existing procedures surrounding the issuance of interception, monitoring and ...

Data is an individual’s right, can’t be treated as a resource: Experts on data panel proposals

The panel recommended that the government can purchase certain non-personal data from businesses at a fair, reasonable and non-discriminato...