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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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Microsoft to Pay $20 Million to Settle US FTC Charges for Violating Children's Privacy
Microsoft had been charged with violating the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children who signed up to its Xbox gaming system without notifying their parents or obtaining their parents' consent, and by retaining children's personal information, the FTC said in a statement.
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Meesho Employee Gets Scam Message For Payment From Person Posing As CEO
Fortunately, Mr Saxena did not fall prey to the fraud and could identify that it was a fraudster and not his boss.
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ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. if You’ve Ever Posted Online, You Ought to Be Concerned
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 ...
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NHRC Chief Calls for Strict Laws for Unlawful Internet Behaviour, Cyber Crimes
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.
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Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data Scraping
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...
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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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Government Working on New Data Protection Bill, Digital India Act, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Says
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.
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Clearview AI Facial Recognition Company Breached Privacy Law: French Watchdog CNIL
France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country.
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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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China Passes Tough New Online Privacy Law
China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams and Beijing targets tech giants hoovering up personal data.
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LinkedIn Suffers Massive Data Breach, Personal Details of 92 Percent Users Being Sold Online: Report
LinkedIn has suffered a new data breach and personal data of 700 million of its users has been put up for sale on the Dark Web. The dataset includes users’ information like email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, and LinkedIn username and profile URLs.
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Facebook Banned From Processing Personal Data of WhatsApp Users by German Regulator
Facebook has been banned from processing personal data of WhatsApp users by German’s lead data protection regulator because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal. WhatsApp says the action rested on a fundamental misunderstanding.
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WhatsApp ‘Illegal’ Data Collection Halted by German Regulator
Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook said that it was taking action against the social network to prevent the collection of personal data from users of its WhatsApp messaging app.
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Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
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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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Microsoft to Pay $20 Million to Settle US FTC Charges for Violating Children's Privacy
Microsoft had been charged with violating the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children who signed up to its Xbox gaming system without notifying their parents or obtaining their parents' consent, and by retaining children's personal information, the FTC said in a statement.
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Meesho Employee Gets Scam Message For Payment From Person Posing As CEO
Fortunately, Mr Saxena did not fall prey to the fraud and could identify that it was a fraudster and not his boss.
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ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. if You’ve Ever Posted Online, You Ought to Be Concerned
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 ...
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NHRC Chief Calls for Strict Laws for Unlawful Internet Behaviour, Cyber Crimes
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice (Retd) Arun Kumar Mishra on Thursday called for a stringent law to deal with "unlawful Internet behaviour and cyber crimes." He was speaking after the inauguration of the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference at the National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.
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Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data Scraping
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...
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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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Government Working on New Data Protection Bill, Digital India Act, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Says
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.
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Clearview AI Facial Recognition Company Breached Privacy Law: French Watchdog CNIL
France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country.
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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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China Passes Tough New Online Privacy Law
China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams and Beijing targets tech giants hoovering up personal data.
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LinkedIn Suffers Massive Data Breach, Personal Details of 92 Percent Users Being Sold Online: Report
LinkedIn has suffered a new data breach and personal data of 700 million of its users has been put up for sale on the Dark Web. The dataset includes users’ information like email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, and LinkedIn username and profile URLs.
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Facebook Banned From Processing Personal Data of WhatsApp Users by German Regulator
Facebook has been banned from processing personal data of WhatsApp users by German’s lead data protection regulator because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal. WhatsApp says the action rested on a fundamental misunderstanding.
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WhatsApp ‘Illegal’ Data Collection Halted by German Regulator
Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook said that it was taking action against the social network to prevent the collection of personal data from users of its WhatsApp messaging app.
-
Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
