Public Database

Documents were to be open for public comments till September 21, civil society groups protest 'removal'

Cyber-security researchers on Monday discovered a potential data breach in Chinese short-form video app TikTok, allegedly involving up to 2 billion user database records

What is data anonymisation?

A top Google executive recently said that large-scale sharing of citizen data - even if it is anonymised - can compromise users' privacy. So what is anonymised data and why has it triggered debate?

India in February published a draft data policy for public consultation saying all data collected, stored by government ministries and departments will be open and shareable barring exceptions

Apart from the data made available free of cost, data which is chargeable should be appropriately identified as such in public domain: Sebi

Trustworthy data, then, should be a resolution for 2022

A set of essays examines the interaction between the expansion of the digital economy and India's socio-political framework

The Prime Minister said a time will come when people want to do a job in the areas near their houses

This comes after the board of Sebi approved a proposal in this regard last month

DPIIT Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra said the ecommerce is a fast emerging sector and it is difficult to predict where it will go in the next couple of years

Social media companies with more than fifty lakh users in India will be categorised as significant social media intermediaries

Linking big datasets from various sources/registers is a daunting task. However, large-scale data-linking is not new

Both legal and technical gaps need to be plugged