User Data Information

Italy orders OpenAI to stop processing users' data else face fine

OpenAI will have to notify the Italian regulators within 20 days of the measures implemented to comply with the order, otherwise a fine of up to 20mn euros or 4% of its total worldwide annual turnover

Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen by hacker, put for sale on dark web

The stolen data includes information about the WHO, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others

Meta to pay $725 mn damages for sharing user data with Cambridge Analytica

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica

Received 55,497 requests for user data from Indian government: Meta

India with 55,497 requests was once again second only to the US in terms of asking Meta to provide user data in the first half of this year

Telegram founder warns users to stay away from WhatsApp yet again

Founder Pavel Durov claimed that the company has been keeping the user's data under surveillance for the past 13 years

TikTok hacked, over 2 bn user database records stolen: Security researchers

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

Snap agrees to pay $35 mn over illegal user data collection in US

Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection

Twitter warns against governments ramping up demands for user details

Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop on private details of user accounts at an alarming rate

'Take it down': Indian requests to social media firms at record highs

Twitter got the largest rise in government demand about content compared to the pre-pandemic period

Alternative data insights startup Synaptic raises $20 mn from Valor

Synaptic is used by leading venture capital and private equity firms, Hedge Funds, and Asset Managers globally with combined assets of several hundred billion dollars

Facebook has no idea how to manage personal user data, say reports

According to the tech website Engadget, privacy engineers on Facebook's Ad and Business Product team wrote a report last year, intending it to be read by the company's leadership

TikTok-Oracle deal to store users' data in US back on track; Reports

Chinese short-video making platform TikTok is finalising a deal with Cloud major Oracle to store users data in the US without giving access to its Chinese parent company ByteDance, the media reported.

Data is information, will dictate history in the future, says PM Modi

Speaking at the Audit Diwas event of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), he said in the past information was transmitted in form of stories.

Twitter's algorithm favours right-leaning politics, finds research

Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

Google gave some users' data to Hong Kong authorities in 2020: Report

Tech giant Google has reportedly provided some users' data to the Hong Kong government last year, despite promising it would not process such data requests from authorities, the media reported.

India 2nd to US in asking Facebook for user data in second half of 2020

India with 40,300 requests was second to the US in terms of asking Facebook to provide user data in the second half of 2020

3.5 million MobiKwik users' data up for sale, company denies claim

The leak was first reported in February by security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, which the company had denied at the time

Explained: What is data erasure and why is it important for organisations?

The Deloitte-Blancco Data Destruction Survey Report explains the different terms used with regard to data erasure and destruction

Data of 2.5 mn Airtel users in J&K allegedly leaked; telco says no breach

A sample of the leaked database was shared on Twitter by cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia which shows masked details of the subscribers

Govt requests for user data up 23% globally in H1 2020, says Facebook

According to Facebook's latest transparency report, total 35,560 requests were made by India in the period for 57,294 users/ accounts