US says Elon Musk should not be immune to testifying about the former TwitterThe U.S. government has rejected former Twitter owner Elon Musk's request to end oversight of the company's data privacy and security pract...
13 Sep, 2023, 10.07 AM IST
New Twitter whistleblower says privacy lapses continued into Elon Musk eraAs many as 4,000 company employees could access an internal function nicknamed “GodMode” that allows them to take over private accounts and...
26 Jan, 2023, 04.49 PM IST
Bengaluru civic body faces flak over data breach of Covid patientsFree Software Movement of India, a coalition of organisations working on data privacy, on Tuesday flagged that Covid-19 data record was bei...
26 May, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
India tops Zoom downloads in AprilThe US-based Zoom, which is also being used to conduct school classes besides corporate meetings, has also been tightening its encryption a...
09 May, 2020, 11.36 AM IST
Tech Mahindra and Israeli startup Atidot collaborate on AI-based insurance solutionThrough this partnership, the companies will provide a platform to increase profitability for insurance companies by predicting customer be...
07 Nov, 2019, 03.24 PM IST
End bad practices in Data Privacy: IAA Congress speakersA top-of-mind topic at the Congress this year is ‘data privacy’ with marketing experts and business leaders across companies
22 Feb, 2019, 07.18 AM IST
India tops world with most Net shutdownsIn India, governments have shut down the internet purportedly to prevent riots, incidents of hate crime, even to prevent cheating in exams.
02 Nov, 2018, 10.54 AM IST
Rajasthan poll rolls were in editable formatRajasthan’s Chief Electoral violated rules by publishing the state’s electoral rolls in editable format on the website, the election commis...
20 Sep, 2018, 07.33 AM IST
Supreme Court may take inputs from Srikrishna panel report on data privacy: Nandan NilekaniThe report also points to the lapses in the Aadhaar framework, saying that there aren’t enough safeguards to prevent data breaches.
28 Jul, 2018, 08.09 AM IST
NEET candidates' data leak: Rahul Gandhi writes to CBSE chief, seeks enquiryIn the letter to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal, Rahul Gandhi called for putting in place additional safeguards to prevent such a breach in ...
24 Jul, 2018, 01.24 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi demands probe into NEET candidates data leakIn a letter to CBSE chairperson, Gandhi also demanded immediate safeguards to be put in place to avert further leaks if such data.
24 Jul, 2018, 10.25 AM IST
NaMo app controversy: US-based analytics firm says it doesn't 'sell, rent' dataCleverTap employees don't have access to any of the data stored with it by a publisher," Anand Jain, co-founder of California-based firm, t...
27 Mar, 2018, 01.52 PM IST
View: Forget the silly spat over ‘leaking’ political apps. Data protection should be the real worryGoI has warned Facebook that it will summon Zuckerberg to India if data of Indian users is stolen. The party has said that any attempt to i...
27 Mar, 2018, 08.08 AM IST
Taxi hailing service Ola's website hacked; company says user details safeThe hackers, who called themselves 'TeamUnknown', said Ola's "app design is very poor" and they had been able to access "credit card transa...
08 Jun, 2015, 08.38 PM IST
- Not so big, brother
Introduction of the Right to Privacy Bill good; but make that a fundamental right.
23 Jun, 2011, 03.26 AM IST
- Twitter to settle FTC charges on data security
US regulator FTC and Twitter have agreed to settle charges that the micro-blogging site failed to safeguard personal information of million...
25 Jun, 2010, 06.40 PM IST
- Google to adopt new privacy rules
Google is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them - a thorny ...
16 Mar, 2007, 02.58 AM IST