Meta cannot run ads based on personal data, rules EU privacy watchdog: sourceThe Irish data protection agency, which oversees Meta because its European headquarters is located in Dublin, has been given a month to iss...
07 Dec, 2022, 08.25 AM IST
India looks at oversight of algorithms used by social media and internet firmsIndia will be among the first few nations to mandate legal oversight of proprietary codes such as algorithms, if the proposal is included i...
06 Dec, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Irish regulator moves closer to possible ban on Facebook, Instagram EU-US data flowsEurope's highest court ruled in 2020 that an EU-US data transfer agreement was invalid, citing surveillance concerns. That prompted Ireland...
07 Jul, 2022, 07.27 PM IST
Government blocked 296 mobile apps since 2014, says Union minister Sanjay DhotreThe minister also said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) -- the requesting agency for blocking of these apps under section 69A of the IT A...
04 Feb, 2021, 04.51 PM IST
WhatsApp tweaks privacy policy to share more user data with FacebookWhatsApp's updated privacy policy and terms of service allows WhatsApp and Facebook to share user information with businesses and third-par...
12 Jan, 2021, 06.15 PM IST
Australian watchdog considers its own Google antitrust case after US sues search giantCompetition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims described the U.S. case filed Tuesday as one of the world's biggest antitrust cases i...
21 Oct, 2020, 12.24 PM IST
Draft ecommerce policy seeks to set up regulator, restrict data storageThe new draft policy proposed by the Centre brings in a regulator for the e-commerce sector.
03 Jul, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Agencies may need court order to trace social media messagesSocial media intermediaries — with more than 5 million registered users — have to trace the original sender of a message when asked by a go...
22 Jan, 2020, 09.00 AM IST
Differentiate between consumer & biz data: Ginni Rometty, IBM CEOGinni Rometty seeks free flow of data across borders to avoid ‘unintended consequences’.
13 Mar, 2019, 09.12 AM IST
Social media poised for more scrutiny, greater checks in 2019The year 2018 will go down in history as the one where social networking platforms made country-specific changes and agreed to store user d...
31 Dec, 2018, 12.23 PM IST
Government needs to find balance between data protection and security: Rishad Premji, Nasscom ChairmanThe Justice BN Srikrishna committee, in its draft data protection policy submitted in July, recommended that every data fiduciary in India ...
19 Sep, 2018, 08.57 AM IST
Telangana red-flags Data Protection Bill citing impact on startups, investmentsData localisation would raise the cost of doing business in Telangana, a state official argued.
13 Sep, 2018, 08.34 AM IST
Government to track social media 24x7 for jihadi posts, chatsAs active propaganda on social media by terror outfits like Islamic State gives security agencies cause for worry, the home ministry is qui...
13 Jul, 2018, 07.22 PM IST
A 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge has Google and Amazon very tenseSrikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws that will regulate how tech giants from the US operate in the nation of 1.3...
11 Jun, 2018, 10.22 AM IST
#DontReadMy-Whatsapp: Decoding the encryption draftThe Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) puts out a Draft National Encryption Policy and asks for comments up to Oc...
23 Sep, 2015, 05.17 AM IST
Place new e-mail policy for babus before Cabinet: Delhi High Court to CentreThe court referred to an incident in which NIA had passed on sensitive information relating to a terror case to its officials by using Goog...
01 Aug, 2014, 09.00 PM IST
Facebook modifies terms of use over privacy concernsBased on the feedback from users, Facebook released a new set of proposed changes and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions.
21 Apr, 2012, 02.15 PM IST