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Thousands of Google employees in recent months have urged the company to make corporate governance changes after it acknowledged mistakes in its handling of sexual misconduct allegations and other employee grievances. (Photo: AP)

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...

8 July 2019 12:25 PM IST

The apex court on September 26 last year had declared the Centres flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions. (Photo: PTI)

SC issues notices to Centre, UIDAI on petition challenging Aadhar...

Petition filed said it creates backdoor to permit private parties' to access Aadhaar eco-system, thus enabling...

5 July 2019 6:57 PM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra said that the bill violates Supreme Court judgment and lacks transparency. (Photo: File)

Can't have cart before horse': Mahua Moitra attacks Aadhaar over...

This bill strikes at the very heart of the primacy of an individual, and privacy of an individual's data,' Moitra said.

4 July 2019 8:35 PM IST

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...

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

4 July 2019 1:40 PM IST

$Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many have already died, the tech firms, including Amazon, \will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding\ to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and UN announced. (Representational image/ Photo: AFP)$ Technology

Amazon's scary admission should worry every customer

The declaration was made in a very matter-of-fact way that makes it all the more alarming.

4 July 2019 12:21 PM IST

3Funs security measures are called into question. (Photo: 3Fun)

Threesome app exposes 1.5 million users' data from White House to 10...

3Fun has been categorized as being probably the worst security for any dating app ever seen.â€

10 Aug 2019 1:44 PM IST

Pixelbook, priced at $999, is the first laptop powered by Google Assistant and will support Snap Incs Snapchat, the company said. The keyboard folds behind the screen to turn the 12.3-inch touchscreen into a tablet. It will be available in stores from Oct. 31.

Google says its making user audio recording storage from its assistant...

This follows after months of questioning & suspicion by privacy activists as well as the media over AI using companies'...

23 Sept 2019 8:50 PM IST

Facebook thinks such requests should be reviewed by EU courts, according to Lamb, and is asking the court to weigh in on broad search terms such as applause or for free that could easily be found in personal email messages or other exchanges way beyond the scope of antitrust matters. (Photo | AFP)

Facebook expresses concern about privacyof its employees, says EU...

The company says the wording of commission requests casts a net so wide it will haul in Facebook employees' private...

28 July 2020 4:38 PM IST

Currently, apps are automatically given a tracking code unless users of iPhones and other Apple devices go to the extra trouble of changing their privacy controls on their own. With iOS 14, Apple planned to make apps get explicit consent from users to track them to serve them ads according to their web use. (Photo | AFP)

Apple postpones unveiling privacy feature on iPhones as apps complain...

Facebook has said that the privacy feature in iOS 14 would deliver a blow to many apps at a time that they are...

4 Sept 2020 4:40 PM IST

Your Face Belongs to Us. (Image: DC)

Is anonymity extinct? What about privacy

Duplicate software have come out in the wake of Clearview which is still highly controversial

8 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

The big difference is that now, the companies will have to justify why theyre collecting and using that information. And theyre prevented from using data for a different purpose later. (Photo: AP)

What's changing under new data privacy rules

Not much will change for you, at least right away; companies will keep on collecting and analysing personal data from...

26 May 2018 7:16 PM IST

Google says applications under the new system will open by the end of May, with approval taking up to five days.

Google tries to ease tensions on eve of new EU privacy law

Internet companies that track users online, whether for shopping, banking or other reasons, are set to face significant...

25 May 2018 7:57 AM IST