November 26th, 2018LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users is being accused of violating data protection rules concerning around 18 million email addresses.
These details were disclosed in a report published Friday by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner. This report covered activities in the first six...
June 19th, 2018IT Minister Ravi Shankar has warned social media companies against misusing user's data to influence upcoming 2019 elections, saying that it would no longer be tolerated.
Moreover, the government is also looking forward to Justice Srikrishna Committee report on data protection and law. Speaking in the context, Prasad added,
“We...
May 16th, 2018Barely two months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is the subject of another data controversy as a third-party app in the form of a personality quiz, was able to collect and distribute sensitive Facebook data from over 3 million people.
The data contained Facebook users’ answers for the personality trait test,...
March 27th, 2018CleverTap, a five-year-old US-based startup founded by three Indians is facing the heat after a pseudonymous researcher alleged that Indian PM Modi's Namo app was disclosing private information like name, email, mobile number, device information, and location, to servers controlled by the firm without the user's consent.
The hacker...
March 24th, 2018While Facebook data leak controversy is still in hot waters, the Centre has sent a six-point notice to British political firm Cambridge Analytica seeking answers on whether it is involved in any projects that include the use of private data of Indian citizens in any form.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has...
January 8th, 2018The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned over reports that the Deputy Director of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had registered an FIR against Rachna Khaira, a reporter of The Tribune, in the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police. The reporter has been booked under IPC sections 419 (punishment for cheating under...
November 2nd, 2017Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and the current and former CEOs of Equifax Inc will testify before a U.S. Senate panel on Nov. 8 on two massive data breaches, the committee said Wednesday.
Verizon Communications Inc, the largest U.S. wireless operator, acquired most of Yahoo Inc’s assets in June. Yahoo disclosed in...
