Page 12 - Data Privacy

Private, not confidential: How data is a casualty in the time of pandemic

Battling the pandemic demands an unprecedented amount of citizen surveillance and data collection. In all of this, does privacy matter? Neha Alawadhi and Arundhuti Dasgupta report

No data breach of customers' financial details with BHIM app, says NPCI

Reacting to the allegations of security chinks at a partner's end, the NPCI said an independent verification of the news was undertaken and no data breach was found

The problem with Aarogya Setu

The app gathers a lot of data, which is unnecessary for the task it supposedly performs

Govt open sources Aarogya Setu, announces bounty for finding security flaws

Launches bug bounty plan to test its security effectiveness

Aaroyga Setu app to become open source, says govt after privacy controversy

'Unique thing to be done,' says Niti Aayog CEO about Aaroyga Setu

Zoom's privacy glitches

Banning the platform is not the right solution

First major EU GDPR decision soon on Twitter, Facebook data practices

Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine over tougher data protection rules

Hackers leak personal data of 29 million Indians on dark web for free

Folders in the name of some of the leading job websites in India also appeared on the screenshot posted by Cyble

SC seeks Centre's response on Zoom ban for privacy breach, security issues

The petitioner, Harsh Chugh, argued that the software application was not safe and did not have end-to-end encryption

Letter to BS: Privacy concerns over Aarogya Setu app deserves to be noted

Will it not be wise to constitute a group of independent members from the civil society - software and legal professionals - to audit the app?

IT clients fear data leak, question WFH feasibility amid Covid-19 crisis

Even getting approval for WFH during the ongoing crisis was not easy for many firms

Tracing Aarogya Setu

Breach of privacy is a serious concern

Virus of cyber kind: Only behavioural change can ensure digital security

Between February and March, there was a 12 per cent increase in the number of devices in India that received at least one threat

Coronavirus spread: Aarogya Setu tops charts with 75 million downloads

Contact-tracing apps to track the spread of Covid-19 have been developed in at least 23 countries, according to research firm Top10VPN.

Aarogya Setu app: Things you need to know about govt's Covid-19 tracker

The app also calculates the user's risk of infection based on recency and proximity of Covid-19 patients

Cybercrimes in the time of Covid-19: Scamsters taking advantage of pandemic

A variety of phishing campaigns are taking advantage to distribute malware, steal credentials, and scam users

Coronavirus: I really messed up on security, says Zoom chief Eric Yuan

The service, once mostly used for client conferences and training webinars, has emerged in the coronavirus lockdown as a home for virtual cocktail hours, exercise classes, cabinet meetings

Privacy during a pandemic

Work from home has meant a surge in the usage of video-conferencing apps... but beware, a contact-tracing app can be surveillance software

Tech billionaires making friends with Big Brother

What was once thunderously de­s­cr­ibed as 'surveillance capitalism' is now a pandemic necessity

Work from home: Ensuring data security a challenging task for businesses

Both employers, employees are liable for data breach from home