Internet Privacy

New IT Act may bring in deliberate misinformation, doxxing as offences

The law may have provisions for net neutrality, data privacy, and algorithmic accountability of social media platforms. It will focus on 'user harms' specific to the online world.

Surfshark to shut down servers in India over govt's new CERT-In rules

Surfshark said that its servers in India will be shut down before June 27, when CERT-In's new rules will come in effect

ExpressVPN removes India-based servers, says Centre's rules 'overreaching'

Virtual private network service provider ExpressVPN announced removal of all its India-based VPN servers, rejecting the directions given by CERT-In

Veiled threats to privacy

Every VPN operating in India will now require to do the KYC for users and keep logs of their usage for five years

WEF 2022: Making the internet world safer by tackling harmful content

More than 4.7 billion people use the internet and McKinsey projects that roughly $2.5 trillion will be transacted online by 2025

Google first tech firm to comply with new South Korean Internet law

Google will take measures to provide stable services, becoming the first company to come under the country's revised law that holds online content providers accountable for service errors

Zoom's privacy glitches

Banning the platform is not the right solution

A critical phase

While business opens, states must be ready for a spike in Covid cases

How websites are watching your every move and ignoring privacy settings

The Princeton researchers found it was difficult to redact personally identifiable information from browsing behaviour records

Internet privacy: US House of Representatives votes to revoke rules

Internet service providers won't require customers' permission to selling sensitive consumer data

US Congress dismantles internet privacy rules

Broadband providers had balked and ramped up lobbying against the rules