News Vaccination details of 1.5 crore Tamil Nadu citizens published online “accidentally”, says government official Although the list was removed from the website, it is possible that by that time copies of the list were already made. Anushka JainMay 9, 2022
News VPN providers call India’s new rules worse than China, Russia Here's how each of them responded to questions on the impact of the cybersecurity directive. Sarvesh MathiMay 6, 2022
News Deep Dive: Why Ola is facing criticism for publicly sharing a customer’s telemetry data Seven key reasons why what the EV manufacturer did is problematic. Sarvesh MathiApril 29, 2022
News Exclusive: Facial recognition in Rourkela to track people, detect protest patterns Scenarios that apparently warrant AI-based video analytics range from parking violations to "person collapsing". Aihik SurApril 22, 2022
News How end-to-end encryption impacts human rights? The good and the bad A Meta-commissioned report explores the human rights pros and cons of end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms. Sarvesh MathiApril 21, 2022
News UK government and multiple Catalan politicians targeted with Pegasus: Citizen Lab India and a few other countries are suspected to have a hand in the hacking of UK targets. Sarvesh MathiApril 19, 2022
News Deep Dive: Tata Neu’s customer data aggregation raises privacy concerns Tata shares personal data of its users between its various brands such as BigBasket, 1mg, Croma; here's why this is problematic. Sarvesh MathiApril 19, 2022
News 360 degree profiling: Maharashtra government to assign unique IDs to citizens, integrate databases Government requirements to draw connections between people and places using data analytics also bring up surveillance fears. Aihik SurApril 12, 2022
News How the debate on Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill unfolded in Lok Sabha The bill which allows law enforcement agencies to collect data without safeguards had opposition MPs up in arms. MitakshApril 6, 2022
News Major airports will have facial recognition-based boarding by next year, says Civil Aviation Ministry The policy behind the government's facial recognition project has been criticised as 'wide and vague'. Aihik SurApril 5, 2022