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A woman gets emotional during a protest against CAA and NRC, at Aazad Maidan in Mumbai.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook holds up an iPhone as he speaks during a data privacy conference at the European Parliament in Brussels.

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Big Data Has Potential To Save Lives In Covid Times, But Proceed With Caution

There are caveats of big data that we need to pay attention to, lest we risk derailing the international community’s efforts to mitigate the spread of this outbreak.

May 23, 2020

| Ashna Mehta
Utterly Illegal: Justice B N Srikrishna On Centre Making Use Of Aarogya Setu Mandatory

The Home Ministry in its guidelines made the Aarogya Setu App mandatory for employees of private and public sector offices while the railways made it mandatory for travel.

May 12, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
RTI Reveals Transport Ministry Accrued Rs 73 Crore By Selling Vehicle Registration Data

Out of the 168 companies that have access to such data, 61 companies are Non-Banking Finance Companies and 43 organisations are Banks.

Dec 13, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
Privacy Breach? Transport Ministry Selling Driving License, Vehicle Registration Data To Commercial Firms

The government got Rs 65 crore by selling data of approximately 25 crore vehicle registrations and 15 crore driving licences. However, is selling this data legal? Is the data actually ‘public’? Isn't it intrusion on privacy?

Jul 15, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
British Airways Faces Record Fine Of 183 Million Pounds Over Data Breach

The penalty imposed on British Airways is the first one to be made public, since those rules were introduced and amounts to 1.5 per cent of its worldwide turnover in 2017, less than the possible maximum of 4 per cent.

Jul 08, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Eco Survey: Govt's Mantra Should Be Data 'Of The People, By The People, For The People'

It noted that India, through unique identification programme Aadhaar, has been at the forefront of data and technology revolution which is unfolding.

Jul 04, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Facebook Asks Users For Their Personal Email Passwords

A message has been flashing on some Facebook users' log-in screen, demanding them to enter the password of the email ID they built their Facebook account on.

Apr 03, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Mukesh Ambani Urges Modi To Act Against Data Colonisation

Stressing that, in this new world, data is the new wealth, Ambani said, "India's data must be controlled and owned by Indian people and not by corporates, especially global corporations."

Jan 18, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Facebook Gave Netflix, Spotify Access To Private Messages Of Users: Report

Facebook also allowed Microsoft's search engine Bing to see the names of Facebook users' friends without permission, and they let Amazon find users' names and contact information through their friends on the platform, according to the report.

Dec 19, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Italian Regulators Fine Facebook 10 Million Euros For Selling User Data: Report

Italian regulators impose a 10 million euro fine on Facebook for discouraging users from trying to limit how the company shares their data.

Dec 08, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau

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Kerala Govt's Tie-Up With IT Startup For Covid-19 Management Raises Privacy Concerns

The cloud-based app Sprinklr helps with the collation and analysis of select data pertaining to pandemic management, including sensitive medical information on those at risk and under surveillance.

Apr 24, 2020

| Siddharth Premkumar
‘They’ll Take Data, Won’t Ask’

Dec 18, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
No Threat To State’s Right To Know You

Proposed data protection law won’t protect personal data from the government

Dec 18, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
Protection For Unruly Data

Europe’s shown the data protection way with the GDRP, India intends to follow, but the road is tricky

Aug 02, 2018

| Arindam Mukherjee

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