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The Minister of Law and Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said the government has been of view that Right to Privacy should be fundamental right. (Photo: PTI)

Firms to face action for releasing data with name: Prasad

Government is committed to make best use of big data in establishing rule of precision governance.

12 Sept 2017 7:19 PM IST

Googles written testimony did not identify specific prior mistakes but the company has come under fire for privacy issues. (Photo: AP)

Google+ to shut down consumer version after 500,000 users data exposed

Google said software glitch in social site gave outside developers potential access to private Google+ profile data...

9 Oct 2018 10:43 AM IST

The data revealed that despite major data leaks, users continue to apply weal passwords that can be easily guessed.

Russia, stung by intelligence leaks, plans to tighten data protection

The bill produced by Russia's communications ministry, bars unauthorised people from creating and publishing databases.

25 Nov 2018 11:27 AM IST

A recent report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has noted that the gross revenue of telecom services providers fell 8.1 per cent while the licence fee collected by the government dropped by 16 per cent year-on-year in the quarter ended December 31, 2017.

Trai views on data privacy, security in telecom sector: R S Sharma

Trai had floated a consultation paper on the privacy, security and ownership of data in telecom sector last year.

22 April 2018 11:56 AM IST

The Industrial Internet is about to get the Apple treatment.

Apple warns its representatives on dripping information

In a leaked internal memo, the company had reportedly told employees it 'caught 29 leakers' last year and 12 were...

14 April 2018 10:49 AM IST

The government has issued notice to Facebook on Wednesday seeking information over the alleged data leak. (Photo: AFP/File)

Facebook repents for not auditing Cambridge Analytica

Political consultancy improperly accessed user data nearly three years ago.

7 April 2018 9:18 AM IST

Big Data is too valuable not to be used by social media and digital search, share, see and sell companies.

In an age of leaks, just lock your data & sell it

Using your data to analyse behaviour trends is also acceptable, if only aggregated, secondary data is made public.

3 April 2018 5:35 AM IST

Russia, which has denied hacking U.S. systems, has been accused of interference in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. (Photo: Representational Image)

Doctor-services firm says private data of patients exposed

An unauthorised third party gained access to the information through employee email accounts.

21 April 2019 11:49 AM IST

, a bug in the website allowed unauthorised access to the digitised records of anyone who has been sent a document link via email. (Photo: ANI)

Security flaw exposes 885 million First American real estate documents

These digitised records include bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers...

27 May 2019 10:49 AM IST

Recently, the US warned its allies against using Huawei technology. (Photo: ANI)

UK police will not probe sacked defence minister over Huawei leak

The opposition Labour Party had called for a criminal investigation into the leak.

5 May 2019 10:43 AM IST

3Funs security measures are called into question. (Photo: 3Fun)

Threesome app exposes 1.5 million users' data from White House to 10...

3Fun has been categorized as being probably the worst security for any dating app ever seen.â€

10 Aug 2019 1:44 PM IST

Racial discrimination at Facebook is real.

Bug may have exposed photos from 7M Facebook users

The bug gave hundreds of apps unauthorised access to photos that could in theory include images that would embarrass...

16 Dec 2018 12:39 PM IST