Privacy Row

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid heated demands from opposition members to refer it to a parliamentary panel for further scrutiny.

The Centre today said that it will examine the charge against WhatsApp of allegedly accessing the microphone of users' devices without their knowledge.

Facebook-parent Meta said it has no plans to pull its services from Europe, after raising the possibility amid an ongoing row over transferring European data to the United States.

The Duchess of Sussex understood that a letter at the centre of a privacy breach row with a British newspaper could be leaked by her father, a court was told Wednesday.

Snooping is against the fundamental rights of citizens and runs foul of the privacy judgment, the CPM said, seeking immediate Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware after reports of its use in India emerged this week.

It's tough to pinpoint exactly where things with Facebook and Apple went wrong, but like so many relationships gone sour, the first signs of real trouble looked like petty sniping. In March 2018, Facebook Inc. was in the midst of a scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and was facing serious questions about its stewardship...

Tiktok, WeChat and 57 other Chinese apps stand permanently banned from India after notices were issued to them last year. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued fresh notices to make permanent the ban imposed on these apps in June, days after an unprecedented escalation in a border row with China. According to reports, the go...

The Delhi High Court on Monday said that it is not mandatory to download WhatsApp, amid concerns over the company's new privacy policy.

Social media platform WhatsApp underscored today that its proposed privacy policy is not meant to enhance data sharing but provide options to help businesses expand. The reiteration came following the government's letter to Will Cathcart, the Global CEO of WhatsApp, asking that the new policy for Indian users be withdrawn.

A recent survey has revealed that only 18 percent of users may continue using WhatsApp in India while 36 percent will reduce their usage drastically. Also, 15 percent of users are likely to stop using the app completely, amid the ongoing privacy row.

WhatsApp's clarification on its privacy policy was splashed across newspapers in full-page ads this morning with the boldfaced title: "WhatsApp respects and protects your privacy".

Amid row over reports of WhatsApp users alleging leak of their private messages with family and friends on search engines, the Facebook-owned messaging service has issued yet another clarification.

After WhatsApp's new privacy policy, users are switching in droves to Signal and Telegram. The movement to leave Facebook-owned WhatsApp grew even stronger after whistleblower Edward Snowden recommended Signal as well. Asked for a reason to trust Signal, Snowden replied, “Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet.”

The WhatsApp snooping row came up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha today, with the Congress-led Opposition claiming that only a joint parliamentary committee probe can bring out the truth in a case where allegations of hacking are being raised against the centre itself.

The kind of malware that led to the massive privacy breach on WhatsApp in at least 20 countries abuses vulnerabilities in operating systems of mobile phones, the messaging platform has said in a fresh statement, days after the snooping scandal came to light.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid heated demands from opposition members to refer it to a parliamentary panel for further scrutiny.

The Centre today said that it will examine the charge against WhatsApp of allegedly accessing the microphone of users' devices without their knowledge.

Facebook-parent Meta said it has no plans to pull its services from Europe, after raising the possibility amid an ongoing row over transferring European data to the United States.

The Duchess of Sussex understood that a letter at the centre of a privacy breach row with a British newspaper could be leaked by her father, a court was told Wednesday.

Snooping is against the fundamental rights of citizens and runs foul of the privacy judgment, the CPM said, seeking immediate Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware after reports of its use in India emerged this week.

It's tough to pinpoint exactly where things with Facebook and Apple went wrong, but like so many relationships gone sour, the first signs of real trouble looked like petty sniping. In March 2018, Facebook Inc. was in the midst of a scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and was facing serious questions about its stewardship...

Tiktok, WeChat and 57 other Chinese apps stand permanently banned from India after notices were issued to them last year. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued fresh notices to make permanent the ban imposed on these apps in June, days after an unprecedented escalation in a border row with China. According to reports, the go...

The Delhi High Court on Monday said that it is not mandatory to download WhatsApp, amid concerns over the company's new privacy policy.

Social media platform WhatsApp underscored today that its proposed privacy policy is not meant to enhance data sharing but provide options to help businesses expand. The reiteration came following the government's letter to Will Cathcart, the Global CEO of WhatsApp, asking that the new policy for Indian users be withdrawn.

A recent survey has revealed that only 18 percent of users may continue using WhatsApp in India while 36 percent will reduce their usage drastically. Also, 15 percent of users are likely to stop using the app completely, amid the ongoing privacy row.

WhatsApp's clarification on its privacy policy was splashed across newspapers in full-page ads this morning with the boldfaced title: "WhatsApp respects and protects your privacy".

Amid row over reports of WhatsApp users alleging leak of their private messages with family and friends on search engines, the Facebook-owned messaging service has issued yet another clarification.

After WhatsApp's new privacy policy, users are switching in droves to Signal and Telegram. The movement to leave Facebook-owned WhatsApp grew even stronger after whistleblower Edward Snowden recommended Signal as well. Asked for a reason to trust Signal, Snowden replied, “Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet.”

The WhatsApp snooping row came up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha today, with the Congress-led Opposition claiming that only a joint parliamentary committee probe can bring out the truth in a case where allegations of hacking are being raised against the centre itself.

The kind of malware that led to the massive privacy breach on WhatsApp in at least 20 countries abuses vulnerabilities in operating systems of mobile phones, the messaging platform has said in a fresh statement, days after the snooping scandal came to light.