WhatsApp’s policy of introducing separate privacy and data sharing policies for Europe and India has raised eyebrows and increased the demand for a strict data protection law in India. The Facebook-owned platform, which has over two billion users across the world, has updated its terms of service in a move leading to widespread confusion about…
In one corner of eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand lies the pilgrim hub of Chitrakoot, whose name translates as “the hill of many wonders.” Temples dot the banks of Mandakini river that flows through Chitrakoot, which finds a mention in the Hindu epic Ramayana as the place where Ram, his brother Lakshman and wife Sita lived…
The government has moved to regulate content on video streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix besides online news portals, rejecting a code of self-regulation that 15 OTT platforms had signed in September. The audiovisual content of over-the-top (OTT) apps, and news and currentaffairs content on online media have been brought under the…
New Delhi: In one of the biggest medical data leak in India, Dr Lal PathLabs, among the country’s largest diagnostic chains, left data of millions of customers exposed in an unprotected cloud server. Cybersecurity expert from Melbourne claimed that the data was exposed for around a year and he estimates the number of patients whose…
Are WhatsApp chats admissible as evidence before a court of law? Yes, but legal experts believe that there are big riders attached to it. Vikrant Singh Negi, a partner at DSK Legal who specialises in white-collar criminal law and data security cases, says like any regular document it will have to pass the scrutiny of…