News What are the different age verification methods available and why are they problematic? A summary of six different age verification solutions used at present, issues with them, and how they can be improved to protect privacy Sarvesh MathiJanuary 11, 2023
News Does the Government’s Proposed Caller Identification System Violate People’s Privacy? The TRAI wants a Truecaller-like caller-verification system: does this mean goodbye to unknown calls, but also your privacy? Akshit ChawlaJanuary 10, 2023
News Why is RailTel’s plan to monetise passengers’ data on public WiFi network problematic? Targeted ads & multimedia infotainment services for railway passengers form key components of the revenue generation plan under this project. Sarasvati NTJanuary 4, 2023
News Hyderabad police denies mass-tracking but justifies using facial recognition: What’s missing? Facial recognition being used as a standalone tool to aid officers in preventing crime, said Hyderabad police, responding to a 2022 petition Sarasvati NTJanuary 4, 2023
News Court Watch: The Biggest Indian Tech Policy Cases to Keep An Eye On In 2023 We round up the year's most important tech policy cases you should keep an eye on, and, more importantly, the people and principles they... Aarathi GanesanJanuary 3, 2023
News Here’s what Kerala HC said about Google’s role in Right to be Forgotten cases As a non-state actor impacting the cultural and political lives of citizens, Google cannot claim to be content blind, Kerala HC stated. Sarasvati NTJanuary 3, 2023
News 10 changes Google must make to its location tracking practices Google has agreed to make a slate of changes to its location tracking practices as part of multiple settlements with several US states. Sarvesh MathiJanuary 2, 2023
News Deep Dive: A plea against “coerced” FRS attendance, and the harms of workplace surveillance The proliferation of facial recognition tech (FRT) without oversight or guardrails has major implications for privacy, freedoms, and dignity itself Vallari SanzgiriDecember 21, 2022
News How the Data Protection Bill, 2022 fares in the Supreme Court’s Puttaswamy test: IFF IFF remarked that "it is intended to be a data processing bill and not a data protection bill" in their evaluation, among other points Sarvesh MathiDecember 20, 2022
News Gmail gets one step closer to E2E encryption with some Workspace users eligible for client-side encryption While client-side encryption is not the same as end-to-end (E2E), this is the closest Gmail has gotten to E2E encryption, which it has been... Sarvesh MathiDecember 19, 2022