The IT Ministry has invited comments on the Srikrishna committee’s data protection bill. Comments can be posted here. till the 5th of September 2018,...
Aadhaar linked to central database of children living in shelter homes Aadhaar numbers of over 30,000 children living in child care institutions have been...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started a preliminary inquiry against Cambridge Analytica, which has been suspected of harvesting and breaching the data of...
The Telangana government will soon create a unified database of citizens, which will contain all the data collected by different government departments. According to...
The draft National E-Commerce policy, of which MediaNama has a copy (pdf), includes debatable requirements like data localisation, an audit of foreign companies’ source code, mandating...
Facebook has asked US banks for detailed financial information of their customers, including card transactions and checking-account balances to offer new financial services to...
Over the weekend, it emerged that an old number used by the Aadhaar-issuing Unique Identification Authority of India for a helpline, 1800-300-1947, was mysteriously...
In a regulatory submission, obtained by MediaNama under RTI, Apple has opposed a provision in TRAI’s SMS Spam regulation which would force handset makers...