Data Protection

In massive data breach, details of 168 mn citizens, defence staff leaked

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of about 16.8 crore citizens. The accused persons were found selling more than 140 different categories of information, which include sensitive information such as details of defence personnel and the mobile numbers of citizens and NEET students, among others, Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra told reporters here on Thursday. Seven data brokers were arrested from Delhi, police said adding that the accused had been operating through three companies (call centres) in Noida and other places. So far it has been found that the accused sold data to at least 100 fraudsters. Investigations are still on, police said. Sensitive data of defence ...

Data Protection Bill gets IT panel thumbs-up, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

According to sources, the Bill will shortly get presented to the Cabinet and is ready to get tabled in Parliament during the ongoing Budget session

India needs regulatory data protection for drug research: Novartis CEO

India should have a regulatory data protection system in place to attract fundamental drug research from major pharmaceutical companies in the world, Novartis Chief Executive Officer Vasant Narasimhan said on Friday here. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the life sciences conclave 'BioAsia 2023' being held here, Narasimhan said great work has been done to streamline Intellectual Property (IP) issues which can be further improved. "I think the next step is when you think about how we generate data and how protected that is in regulatory filings. India does not have regulatory data protection," he said replying to a query. If one looks at any place in the world where there is significant fundamental drug research happening from multinational firms, there is regulatory data protection, including China, Narasimhan further said. The Novartis CEO added that getting approvals for clinical trials used to be very difficult in India earlier. However, with the new policy, the process

New data protection bill to peg age of 'children' at 18 years: Report

The companies will be required to get parental consent before processing any data belonging to 'children'

The digital boom's cybersecurity pitfalls: Negligence may spoil the party

The large-scale adoption of cloud and the work-from-anywhere model have led Indian businesses to step up investment in data protection

SC may wait for data protection bill before probing WhatsApp privacy policy

The top court observed that there was no harm in waiting for the bill to be tabled and "heavens are not going to fall in the meanwhile"

For data storage, India trusts global service providers over local: Cisco

79 per cent of all corporate respondents in the Cisco's latest survey said that data protection laws have a positive effect

Apple expands Advanced Data Protection option globally with iOS 16.3 update

Apple has announced that it is expanding its Advanced Data Protection option for users globally

Key tech reforms like data protection, revised IT rules, expected in 2023

As India aspires to become $5 trillion economy, it needs sharper regulations to tame Big Tech from misusing market dominance. Will 2023 finally deliver key bills on data protection and crypto?

Over 54 million users' data at risk via 3 popular email marketing apps

Three popular transactional and marketing email service providers -- Mailgun, MailChimp and Sendgrid -- have put data of more than 54 million mobile app users at risk, including from India

Privacy in the digital Wild West

The arguments against a personal data privacy law are spurious. India needs robust data protection laws to enable growth without breaches of privacy

RBI advises fintechs to focus on governance, data protection issues

Das advised fintechs to pay close attention to governance, business conduct, data protection, customer centricity, regulatory compliance and risk mitigation frameworks

Nasscom hails draft data protection bill for dropping contentious rules

Provisions on non-personal data, criminal penalties, hardware certification scheme, and statutory data residency requirements among those axed

Elon Musk warned by EU official to keep Putin's propaganda off Twitter

Failing to take on fake or misleading content online could "lead to the very quick abuse" of Twitter, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova, said

India's revised data protection bill 'promising, clear': Meta's Nick Clegg

'Real process of openness' and listening to feedback in preparing legislation, he says

Irish regulator fines Meta $276 mn over data leak that hit Indian users too

The DPC commenced the inquiry "on foot of media reports into the discovery of a collated dataset of Facebook personal data that had been made available on the internet"

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw counters criticism around proposed DPDP Bill

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday allayed concerns over the extent of independence of the government-appointed oversight body proposed in the draft data protection Bill, saying just like RBI and SEBI the architecture of the new body will ensure its autonomy on issues. Vaishnaw, who was speaking at Times Now Summit 2022 also countered criticism around the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill and questions around surveillance and said the risk of terrorist threats and cyber threats, as well as the changing nature of global warfare have to be kept in mind. These realities have to be considered, and a balanced view has to be taken. Supreme Court, he said, has set clear processes on surveillance, with many checks and balances. To questions being raised on just how independent the proposed Data Protection Board will be, the minister made it clear that independence and autonomy come from law, and cited the strong reputation enjoyed by RBI, SEBI, all over the world. Sin

Modified data protection bill to bring ease for startup ecosystem: Experts

MeitY on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection law, in the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018

Data Bill's hits and opportunities

Governance through trusts will help balance the concerns over data sovereignty and its economic potential

Govt should rethink several clauses of draft data bill: Justice Srikrishna

Raises concerns about independence of data protection board under protocols in the present draft