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… Continue reading Dr lal pathlabs data leak-legal opinions on liabilities, punishments ,penalty-the 420.in, 10 oct 2020
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… Continue reading Bollywood drugs probe raises questions on digital privacy , India News, 29 Sept 2020
Of the many stories I grew up listening to, this has been playing on my mind for some time now. As a moral and ethical dilemma grips the post-modern, tech-driven world of music in the country, the story of a village singer suddenly rings true. A sangeet-visharad (master exponent of music) in a village ends… Continue reading Fake-ing it maybe music to their ears, but not all are like-ing this,The Times Of India, 28 Aug 2020
The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday banned another 118 Chinese-funded mobile apps, including the popular PubG, Alipay and Baidu, after terming them prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of the nation. The latest move comes a little over two months after the ministry of electronics and information technology banned 59 apps, including TikTok, amid… Continue reading PubG and 117 apps banned, the telegraph, 2020
The Mumbai Police earlier this week arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly creating a fake profile of Bollywood playback singer Bhoomi Trivedi. The interrogation of the accused Abhishek Daude revealed that there are several such companies that sell followers and ‘likes’ on social media. Mumbai Police have now decided to widen the scope of the… Continue reading Explained: The business of fake social media accounts, revealed in Mumbai arrest,Indian express, 22 july 2020
TikTok is under investigation for allegedly violating a settlement reached with US authorities last year that resolved charges the popular app broke rules governing how children’s personal information is treated online. The US Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, and the Justice Department, which often files court actions… Continue reading Tiktok App privacy:How US seeks to protect children’s privacy online, Times of India ,9 july 2020