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Tech This Week | India needs to be more mindful in regulating non-personal data

If non-personal data is made subject to mandatory sharing, data businesses will begin classifying such data as personal.

08 Aug 2020 6:24 PM

Undertakers in protective personal equipment prepare for a Muslim burial at Johannesburg's main Westpark Cemetery. (AP)

South Africa surpasses UK in confirmed coronavirus cases

South Africa now has world’s eighth-highest number of cases, which represents nearly half of all the confirmed cases on African continent

15 Jul 2020 12:13 PM

There is a strong tendency within the Government to view data as a national asset, akin to say, the Indian Railways. This has been an inherent line of reasoning in multiple draft and actual policies. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Tech This Week | Data is not national wealth, must not be regulated in same manner

Value is derived from data is because it is shared. That’s a key reason why technology evolved into a multi-trillion dollar global industry.

11 Jul 2020 9:33 PM

BSNL landline users who opt for the plan get up to 5GB data daily at a speed of 10 Mbps, after which the speed falls to 1Mbps.

BSNL extends free broadband plan to aid work from home till May 19

Landline users can call 1800-345-1504 to register for the free internet plan

25 Apr 2020 6:58 PM

Central Reserve Police Force personnel prepare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and face masks for healthcare staff at a CRPF facility in New Delhi on Tuesday, April 14,2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Fighting coronavirus is a battle in the dark

The virus' potency is magnified several times over by the socioeconomic conditions in developing countries

16 Apr 2020 12:37 AM

The evidence suggests the data was collected illegally, most likely by criminals in Vietnam who may have “scraped” it from public Facebook pages. (Photo: AP)

Data on 267 million Facebook users exposed

The database, which Diachenko discovered with a search engine, was freely accessible online for at least 10 days.

24 Dec 2019 6:00 PM

From banks to e-commerce companies, everyone is leveraging human data in their own way.

Love thy data!

Your social data is vulnerable and needs to be quarantined before an outbreak occurs.

25 Nov 2019 8:51 AM

The petition, jointly filed by retired Indian Army officer S G Vombatkare and human rights activist Bezwada Wilson.

SC issues notices on plea challenging Aadhaar data usage by private entities

The case will be heard along with the petition challenging the ordinance on the same.

22 Nov 2019 12:52 PM

The exposed database which contains months-worth of logs of the sites activities had been left exposed for weeks. (Photo: Pixabay)

‘Camgirl’ porn websites expose millions of users

Details of sex workers have also been revealed in the exposure.

04 Nov 2019 11:55 AM

, Spotify updated its terms asking Premium Family subscribers to provide location data.

Spotify is asking for users' location data to curb fraud

The plan costs USD 15 per month for up to six people, however, the condition requires all six to be living at the same address.

14 Sep 2019 7:31 AM

WorkWave’s cloud-based GPS and route planning solutions will utilize industry leading mapping data.

HERE Technologies to power WorkWave’s mapping functionality

WorkWave to globally leverage industry leading mapping data, routing and geocoder solutions from HERE.

14 Aug 2019 6:33 PM

Leaders face tremendous pressure in this competitive age to harness data at the right time.

Data Fabric key to solving data challenges in a bank’s digital transformation

Gartner predicts that a whopping 80 per cent of traditional banks will go out of business by 2030.

13 Aug 2019 11:49 AM

The company stressed that the shared data did not contain passwords or email accounts.

Twitter bug may have accidentally leaked your data

Twitter explained that if users engaged with ads on its mobile apps since May 2018.

08 Aug 2019 7:47 AM

A tech engineer in the western US state of Washington was arrested Monday on charges of stealing sensitive data from more than 100 million credit card applications at financial heavyweight Capital One. (Representational Image)

US woman boasted of massive credit card data theft online, arrested

Authorities said electronic storage devices containing a copy of the stolen data were recovered at her residence on Monday.

30 Jul 2019 12:05 PM

Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad added that the government will make efforts to make the country one of world's largest centre of data analysis. (Photo: ANI)

India will never compromise its data sovereignty: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He also touched upon the subject of 5G ecosystem and said his vision of India includes the creation of Indian patents in 5G technology.

28 Jul 2019 9:59 AM

Analyst Gerald Khoo at broker Liberum said the proposed fine equated to about 9 pence per IAG share. (Photo: AFP)

British Airways faces record USD 230 million fine over data theft

The ICO proposed a penalty of 183.4 million pounds, or 1.5 per cent of British Airways’ 2017 worldwide turnover, for the hack.

09 Jul 2019 7:48 AM

Google reportedly uses Gmail to collect a list of everything that you have purchased if you happen to use Gmail in any part of the transaction.

Did you know Google keeps a log of all your purchases? We are outraged

Google states that it is done so you can query the Assistant about your order status or if you want to reorder something.

08 Jul 2019 12:25 PM

It noted that India, through unique identification programme Aadhaar, has been at the forefront of data and technology revolution which is unfolding. (Photo: ANI)

Economic Survey: Data must be 'of the people, by the people, for the people'

Economic Survey for 2018-19 asserted that benefits of creating data as public good can be generated within legal framework of data privacy.

04 Jul 2019 1:40 PM

RBI had advised all system providers to ensure that within a period of six months, the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them is stored in a system only in India. (Photo: File | Pixabay)

Data related to payments to be stored only in India: RBI

In case payment processing is done abroad, data should be deleted there and brought back to India within 24 hours, said RBI.

26 Jun 2019 6:47 PM

Slights noted that Facebook had at the time of the 2015 Cambridge Analytica breach been subject to a US Federal Trade Commission consent decree that required it to bolster its data security measures. (Photo: ANI)

Facebook ordered by judge to turn over data privacy records

Cambridge Analytica used profiling techniques to predict and influence voter behaviour.

01 Jun 2019 12:30 PM

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