News Twitter “withholds” Rana Ayyub and others’ accounts on govt orders: What happened, and why Journalist Rana Ayub shared a takedown notice of her tweet on the Gyanvyapi mosque decision, raisig red flags on India's current media and online... Sashwata SahaJune 28, 2022
News What is CrowdTangle and why is Meta planning to retire it? Meta is planning to discontinue the social media research tool CloudTangle, meant for publishers and fact-checkers, etc. What was behind the decision? Sashwata SahaJune 28, 2022
News Mobile games have your kid’s personal data: What do you need to know? A report by Pixalate says that popular mobile game apps, and others targeted at children, are collecting sensitive data, raising privacy concerns Sashwata SahaJune 27, 2022
News NIC is rolling out vehicle tracking modules: here’s some food for thought Tracking, license registration, traffic fine management and pollution control for public vehicles will soon be digital. But is data and privacy safe? Sashwata SahaJune 24, 2022
News Why was Meta sued for discrimination in housing ads, and what happened next? Social media giant Meta has settled a case with the US government accusing it enabling racial discrimination in housing through Special Ad Audiences Sashwata SahaJune 23, 2022
News Why did Microsoft and Adobe push out security updates back to back? India's cybersecurity body has flagged security loopholes in the products of popular developers Microsoft and Adobe that can compromise user systems Sashwata SahaJune 23, 2022
News Google removes app permissions info from Play Store pages: what it means for privacy Google replaced mandatory information with an optional "data safety" form on its Play Store for apps. What does this mean for user privacy? Sashwata SahaJune 22, 2022
News Deep Dive: Nagaland to use facial recognition for teacher’s attendance, but what are the issues at stake? Experts point out lack of privacy protections and risks of identity theft in Nagaland's plan of marking attendance through facial recongition Sashwata SahaJune 18, 2022
News Pune Police accused of ‘hacking’ arrested activists’ phones in Bhima Koregaon case Rights group Amnesty International, along with others, accused Pune Police of hacking phones, laptops of accused in Bhima Koregaon case of 2018 Sashwata SahaJune 17, 2022
News What is the new Peekaboo privacy framework for the Internet of Things? 'Pekaboo' is a new privacy framework for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a smart home, to enable security through data minimization Sashwata SahaJune 14, 2022