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$We support this legislation and the beginning of this very important conversation,\ Match Group chief executive Shar Dubey said in an online post.$ Technology

OkCupid, Tinder developer supports US bill to curb child abuse online

Digital rights activists argue that the bill is an indirect way to weaken online encryption in the name of better law...

11 March 2020 7:56 PM IST

Civil rights advocates warn that the backdoor access that the bill would provide could be exploited by hackers and authoritarian governments. (Photo | Pix- djandyw.com)

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Threat to data privacy as US bill targets encryption to curb child sex...

Digital rights activists argue that the bill is an indirect way to weaken online encryption in the name of better law...

8 March 2020 4:40 PM IST

Currently, only the code for the Android version of the app is being made open source. (Representative Image)

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Aarogya Setu source code made public days after MIT tech review...

A few days ago, MIT tech review reduced the rating for the app from 2 stars to 1 star, saying it collected far more data...

27 May 2020 9:01 PM IST

Zoom violates the privacy of its millions of users, the plea says, an allegation that the governments COVID app Aarogya Setu also faces from users.

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Zoom not safe, says plea in Supreme Court asking for ban on app,...

The plea also seeks a direction to the Centre to carry out a technical study into the security and privacy risks of...

22 May 2020 8:38 PM IST

Zoom, which boasts 300 million users, had the luck to be in the right place at the right time just as millions of employees around the world suddenly found themselves ordered to work from home.

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Facing flak over lapses, Zoom acquires security firm Keybase to fix...

Keybase is Zoom's first acquisition. The company will help Zoom implement end-to-end encryption.

8 May 2020 8:12 PM IST

Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Googles parent company Alphabet, had been proposing to turn a rundown part of Torontos waterfront into a wired community but the project is no longer financially viable. (Illustration | Sidewalk Toronto)

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Google abandons plan to build tech city where smart streets would melt...

Uncertainty in the real estate market of Toronto where it was planned has made the project unviable, Google affiliate...

8 May 2020 7:12 PM IST

Xiaomi India Managing Director Manu Kumar Jain said the company does not collect any user data that the user has not explicitly given permission or consent to.

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Xiaomi dismisses reports that it collects user data, says it is...

The clarification came after reports that Mi Browser collects unnecessary info while browsing and sends the user data to...

2 May 2020 7:50 PM IST

There is an inherent bias against Tiktok because it is Chinese. There are suspicions that TikToks parent ByteDance is connected to the Communist Party. There is also the data sovereignty argument, where Indian data is shared with Chinese companies.

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After ban, Tiktok says it never shared any Indian users' data with...

"TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law..."

30 Jun 2020 11:35 AM IST

We must be sure that the app and its stated purpose is used for that, (and) not by governments, companies, etc, to find out who youre talking to, or where youre going, United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said. (Photo | Pixabay - iXimus)

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Governments, companies should not use COVID apps to find out users'...

United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat Head Chengetai Masango said privacy should be paramount.

29 Jun 2020 8:17 PM IST

We believe that products should keep your information for only as long as its useful and helpful to you, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post, adding that the changes were designed to keep less data by default. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Nguyen Hung Vu)

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Now, new users on Google have auto-delete already activated to wipe...

Current users can already opt in to auto-delete their data every three or 18 monthsa setting that has not changed.

25 Jun 2020 5:29 PM IST

The app was suspended ahead of an Amnesty International report analyzing contact tracing apps from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which found that the Norwegian app was one of the most alarming for privacy because of its live or near-live tracking of users locations. The rights group said it shared its findings with authorities earlier this month and urged them to change course.

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Privacy violation not justified anymore as case count drops, Norways...

Norway currently has between 50 and 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

15 Jun 2020 9:57 PM IST

The COVID-19 apps also continuously collect and process highly sensitive and personally identifiable information, about health, location and direct identifiers like name, age, email address and voter or national identification of a user.

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In the next James Bond film, 007 should use COVID-19 app data; it...

Most COVID apps access data from mobile devices such as contacts, photos, media, files, location data, camera and...

9 Jun 2020 4:10 PM IST