Privacy
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Call for better regulations on Aadhaar governance and privacy
India’s Aadhaar identification system is a biometric identification of citizens, meant to streamline and universalise service delivery mechanisms through documentation of people’s demographic and biometric data. Aadhaar enrolment, which was voluntary earlier,…
- News
DPDP Act amends RTI to balance privacy with right to information
New Delhi: The amendment made in the RTI Act through the data protection law balances it with Right to Privacy, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. In response to a question on the…
- India
Ghibli-style AI portraits go viral, but is your face training the bots?
OpenAI’s latest Ghibli-style AI image generator has taken social media by storm, with users eagerly sharing their AI-transformed portraits in the signature style of renowned animator Hayao Miyazaki. However, the viral trend…
- Business
New Income Tax Bill allows access to digital records, breaching privacy
In the 2025 Union budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced a new Income Tax Bill, a revamp of the old one – Income-tax Act, 1961. Although Sitharaman assured that the new Bill…
- Middle East
Turkey fines Meta over child privacy breach
Ankara: Turkey’s data protection authority, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK), has fined Meta, the parent company of Instagram, 11.5 million Turkish liras (around 330,000 US dollars) for violations related to the…
- Technology
The Growing Threat to Free Speech in the Age of Social Media Titans
How safe is the information that you share in confidence on social media platforms with your friends and loved ones? How long does the data that you share remain on the electronic…
- India
Probe agency can’t peep into private life of accused on bail: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court held on Monday, July 8, said that bail conditions allowing an investigating agency to continuously track the movements of an accused violate the right to privacy guaranteed…
- News
Apple Intelligence: AI with robust privacy coming soon on your devices
New Delhi: As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to transform user experiences across devices and apps, ‘Apple Intelligence’ now aims to puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac…
- Technology
US regulators accuse TikTok of violating child privacy laws
Washington: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice, alleging that they failed…
- Technology
Will leave India if forced to break encryption: Whatsapp to Delhi HC
Online messaging app WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court that it will shut down its operations in India if it is forced to break its end-to-end encryption and identify the original senders…
- Technology
Apple issues fix to address vulnerability in iOS privacy
San Francisco: Apple has fixed a vulnerability in its iPhone software that allegedly came with an iOS update which was launched in 2020. The feature in iOS 14 would prevent nearby wireless…
- India
Concerns over privacy mount after LS passes Registration of Births & Deaths (Amendment) Bill
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday, August 2, passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023. The legislation aims to create a database recording all registered births and deaths, which the…
- India
WhatsApp user says mic in use while he was asleep; Govt to examine ‘breach of privacy’
New Delhi: The government will investigate a claim that WhatsApp accessed the microphone of smartphone users while the phone was not in use, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev…
- Technology
Android beta users to have ‘lock chat’ feature on WhatsApp
San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new “Lock chat” feature for Android beta which will allow users to lock chats and keep them hidden. This new feature…
- Bollywood
Sushmita says privacy is a ‘myth’ after Alia slams unauthorised images
Mumbai: Bollywood actress and former beauty queen Sushmita Sen has slammed the paparazzi culture and posted a note written by Huma Tanweer about “privacy” being a “myth”. Alia had penned a scathing…
