Online Personal Data

Boat has started an investigation into an alleged data breach that leaked the personal information of millions of customers, the company has confirmed. According to a recent report, the personal data of over 7.5 million users was posted online by a hacker, exposing their personal information including names, phone numbers, addresses, email IDs, and...

When you lock your Aadhar card, it secures your biometric data and other personal information, preventing unauthorised individuals from misusing your Aadhar card.

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.

The government on Monday shared a detailed response to reports of an alleged data breach of the CoWIN database, following reports that an automated bot on Telegram was surfacing personal details of people who had registered with the CoWIN platform to receive COVID vaccinations during the pandemic.

The personal data of COVID-19 vaccine recipients in India was reportedly leaked online via a Telegram. Details of an alleged data breach surfaced on Twitter on Monday, and the leaked data also includes the personal information on several politicians and journalists. The bot appears to have been taken offline after the reports of the leaked data eme...

The team behind Polygon has now launched a new feature called the zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) service, that would give the process of id-verification a Web3 twist. Users of the Polygon ID service will be able to verify their identities online without getting their personal data stored with third-party companies.

ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI has taken the world by storm. However, a much less discussed implication is the privacy risks ChatGPT poses to every user who has posted content online. OpenAI fed the chatbot with 300 billion words sourced from books, articles, websites, and posts and these includie personal information obtained from users ...

The government will hold discussions with stakeholders before its controversial plan to give powers to its arm the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to police fake news on social media, according to Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has prop...

Facebook has been hit with a EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator on Monday. The watchdog was investigating the scraping of personal data that was found in a data set from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019. This is the fourth fine that the DPC has imposed on one of Meta's companies, and the r...

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...

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.

Optus, the second-largest telecom operator in Australia, was impacted by a data breach that exposed 9.8 million customers' details. The Australian police are now probing a demand by a purported hacker who has released private information of 10,000 subscribers and demanded a $1 million (roughly Rs. 8 crore) ransom. The hacker has also threatened to ...

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s IT and Communications Minister, announced recently that the government is working on a new Data Protection Bill and the Digital India Act. It will also upload a new Telecom Bill in the coming days, the minister stated.

The RaHDIt hacking group, based in Russia, has leaked personal information of Russian citizens who have collaborated with Ukrainian military intelligence, according to a report by Sputnik. The hackers leaked details of thousands of Ukrainian officers, their relatives and people living with them. The data on the alleged spies include representatives...

Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.

Boat has started an investigation into an alleged data breach that leaked the personal information of millions of customers, the company has confirmed. According to a recent report, the personal data of over 7.5 million users was posted online by a hacker, exposing their personal information including names, phone numbers, addresses, email IDs, and...

When you lock your Aadhar card, it secures your biometric data and other personal information, preventing unauthorised individuals from misusing your Aadhar card.

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.

The government on Monday shared a detailed response to reports of an alleged data breach of the CoWIN database, following reports that an automated bot on Telegram was surfacing personal details of people who had registered with the CoWIN platform to receive COVID vaccinations during the pandemic.

The personal data of COVID-19 vaccine recipients in India was reportedly leaked online via a Telegram. Details of an alleged data breach surfaced on Twitter on Monday, and the leaked data also includes the personal information on several politicians and journalists. The bot appears to have been taken offline after the reports of the leaked data eme...

The team behind Polygon has now launched a new feature called the zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) service, that would give the process of id-verification a Web3 twist. Users of the Polygon ID service will be able to verify their identities online without getting their personal data stored with third-party companies.

ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI has taken the world by storm. However, a much less discussed implication is the privacy risks ChatGPT poses to every user who has posted content online. OpenAI fed the chatbot with 300 billion words sourced from books, articles, websites, and posts and these includie personal information obtained from users ...

The government will hold discussions with stakeholders before its controversial plan to give powers to its arm the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to police fake news on social media, according to Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has prop...

Facebook has been hit with a EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator on Monday. The watchdog was investigating the scraping of personal data that was found in a data set from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019. This is the fourth fine that the DPC has imposed on one of Meta's companies, and the r...

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...

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.

Optus, the second-largest telecom operator in Australia, was impacted by a data breach that exposed 9.8 million customers' details. The Australian police are now probing a demand by a purported hacker who has released private information of 10,000 subscribers and demanded a $1 million (roughly Rs. 8 crore) ransom. The hacker has also threatened to ...

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s IT and Communications Minister, announced recently that the government is working on a new Data Protection Bill and the Digital India Act. It will also upload a new Telecom Bill in the coming days, the minister stated.

The RaHDIt hacking group, based in Russia, has leaked personal information of Russian citizens who have collaborated with Ukrainian military intelligence, according to a report by Sputnik. The hackers leaked details of thousands of Ukrainian officers, their relatives and people living with them. The data on the alleged spies include representatives...

Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.