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UK Admits Encryption Hurdles to Online Safety Law After WhatsApp, Signal Threaten to Pull Out
The UK has admitted there could be technical challenges in the country's upcoming Online Safety Bill which plans to allow regulator Ofcom to compel tech firms to scan their services for illegal content. WhatsApp and Signal had warned of the threat to privacy and encryption of user data posed by the UK's Online Safety Bill, even threatening to pull ...
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Digital Personal Data Protection Law Expected to Be Implemented Within 10 Months: IT Minister
The government is expecting to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection law within 10 months, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The Bill, which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring 'Right to Privacy' as a fundamental right, has provisions to curb the misuse of individuals' data by online platforms.
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Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill Lets Easy Cross-Border Data Transfer, to Act as Relief for Big Tech
The government on Friday proposed a new data privacy law that allows the transfer and storage of personal data in some countries while raising the penalty for violations. The draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2022 will be a great relief for Google, Amazon, Facebook and other global firms as it replaces an earlier version that had a...
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Up To Rs 250-Crore Fine For Personal Data Breach In New Bill: Sources
The Centre is working on a new draft of the proposed Digital Data Protection Bill 2022 after withdrawing the earlier Personal Data Protection Bill during the monsoon session of parliament this year.
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TikTok May Face GBP 27 Million Fine Over Potential Breach of UK Law, Failure to Protect Children's Privacy
TikTok, the popular video sharing platform that is growing in popularity across the world, may face a GBP 27 million (roughly Rs. 236 crore) fine in the UK over its failure to protect children's privacy when they are using the app. The company may have processed the data of children under 13 without appropriate parental consent, and processed “sp...
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How Online Privacy Has Changed Users’ Data Protection Since US Supreme Court Ruling Against Abortion
Facebook messages of a mother-daughter duo over abortion are being investigated in Nebraska after the US Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. Since the ruling, there has been a concern on how collected location data, text messages, search histories, emails and seemingly innocuous period and ovulation-tracking apps could be used to prosecute people ...
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New Personal Data Privacy Law Passed in China to Protect Online Users, to Take Effect November 1
China's National People's Congress officially passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy starting November 1, according to state-media outlet Xinhua.
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Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy Law On YouTube
Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected data about children younger than age 13 who watched toy videos and television shows on YouTube, settling a long-running government investigation but leaving some in Washington once again furious that regulators had been outmatched by Silicon Valley.
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US Justice Department Sues California For Passing Net Neutrality Law
The US Justice Department on Sunday sued California to force it to abandon a law, passed earlier in the day, to protect "net neutrality" aimed at requiring all online data to be treated equally.
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EU Data Laws Set to Bite After Facebook Scandal
New European Union data protection laws take effect on May 25 to protect users' online information.
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Thousands Of Android Apps May Be Illegally Tracking Children, Study Finds
Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data collection efforts.
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Facebook Data Privacy: Mark Zuckerberg Says No Plans To Extend European Privacy Law Globally
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.
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Government Working on Data Protection Law, Says IT Secretary
IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the government has "already taken cognisance of the fact that data is being put out indiscriminately in certain cases".
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Considering Law For Online Data Protection, Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was actively considering to put in place a law to protect data and curb sharing of individual data on social networking sites and online messaging services.
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Government to Amend Laws to Protect Online Shoppers
The government has initiated the process to amend the Consumer Protection Act to safeguard buyers from online frauds in e-commerce, Parliament was informed on Friday.
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UK Admits Encryption Hurdles to Online Safety Law After WhatsApp, Signal Threaten to Pull Out
The UK has admitted there could be technical challenges in the country's upcoming Online Safety Bill which plans to allow regulator Ofcom to compel tech firms to scan their services for illegal content. WhatsApp and Signal had warned of the threat to privacy and encryption of user data posed by the UK's Online Safety Bill, even threatening to pull ...
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Digital Personal Data Protection Law Expected to Be Implemented Within 10 Months: IT Minister
The government is expecting to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection law within 10 months, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The Bill, which comes after six years of the Supreme Court declaring 'Right to Privacy' as a fundamental right, has provisions to curb the misuse of individuals' data by online platforms.
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Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill Lets Easy Cross-Border Data Transfer, to Act as Relief for Big Tech
The government on Friday proposed a new data privacy law that allows the transfer and storage of personal data in some countries while raising the penalty for violations. The draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2022 will be a great relief for Google, Amazon, Facebook and other global firms as it replaces an earlier version that had a...
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Up To Rs 250-Crore Fine For Personal Data Breach In New Bill: Sources
The Centre is working on a new draft of the proposed Digital Data Protection Bill 2022 after withdrawing the earlier Personal Data Protection Bill during the monsoon session of parliament this year.
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TikTok May Face GBP 27 Million Fine Over Potential Breach of UK Law, Failure to Protect Children's Privacy
TikTok, the popular video sharing platform that is growing in popularity across the world, may face a GBP 27 million (roughly Rs. 236 crore) fine in the UK over its failure to protect children's privacy when they are using the app. The company may have processed the data of children under 13 without appropriate parental consent, and processed “sp...
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How Online Privacy Has Changed Users’ Data Protection Since US Supreme Court Ruling Against Abortion
Facebook messages of a mother-daughter duo over abortion are being investigated in Nebraska after the US Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade. Since the ruling, there has been a concern on how collected location data, text messages, search histories, emails and seemingly innocuous period and ovulation-tracking apps could be used to prosecute people ...
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New Personal Data Privacy Law Passed in China to Protect Online Users, to Take Effect November 1
China's National People's Congress officially passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy starting November 1, according to state-media outlet Xinhua.
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Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy Law On YouTube
Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected data about children younger than age 13 who watched toy videos and television shows on YouTube, settling a long-running government investigation but leaving some in Washington once again furious that regulators had been outmatched by Silicon Valley.
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US Justice Department Sues California For Passing Net Neutrality Law
The US Justice Department on Sunday sued California to force it to abandon a law, passed earlier in the day, to protect "net neutrality" aimed at requiring all online data to be treated equally.
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EU Data Laws Set to Bite After Facebook Scandal
New European Union data protection laws take effect on May 25 to protect users' online information.
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Thousands Of Android Apps May Be Illegally Tracking Children, Study Finds
Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data collection efforts.
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Facebook Data Privacy: Mark Zuckerberg Says No Plans To Extend European Privacy Law Globally
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.
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Government Working on Data Protection Law, Says IT Secretary
IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the government has "already taken cognisance of the fact that data is being put out indiscriminately in certain cases".
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Considering Law For Online Data Protection, Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was actively considering to put in place a law to protect data and curb sharing of individual data on social networking sites and online messaging services.
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Government to Amend Laws to Protect Online Shoppers
The government has initiated the process to amend the Consumer Protection Act to safeguard buyers from online frauds in e-commerce, Parliament was informed on Friday.
