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A picture shows a surveillance camera in an underground passage in Moscow on January 27, 2020. - A vast and contentious network of facial-recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in slowing the rapid spread of coronavirus in Russia. (Photo | AFP)

Privacy could become the next victim of the coronavirus as governments...

Authoritarian regimes such as China use COVID-19 as a pretext to suppress independent speech and restrict fundamental...

29 March 2020 12:12 PM IST

$SK Telecoms AI speaker Nugu built with an artificial intelligence called \Aria\ and a lamp that turns blue when processing voice commands for news, music and internet searches, is seen in Seoul, South Korea, on May 13, 2020. The devices can also use quizzes to monitor the memory and cognitive functions of their elderly users, which would be potentially useful for advising treatments. (Photo | AP)$ Technology

No human contact during COVID-19, lonely elders in South Korea watched...

Social workers, who have smartphone apps, make calls or visits when users don't use their devices for more than 24...

31 May 2020 6:32 PM IST

The US Commerce Department said that Qihoo 360 and seven other companies that supplied video and other surveillance technology and two government entities were added to the list for being complicit in human rights violations and abuses in the Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.

US politicising business', says Chinese anti-virus firm blacklisted...

President Donald Trump's administration says Chinese tech is based at least in part on stealing foreign knowhow and is...

25 May 2020 6:57 PM IST

$The State Council said that since the drones cameras could let police identify individuals on the ground, there are risks they could be used contrary to personal data protection rules\. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology

Drones cannot be used to enforce physical distancing norms, French...

It's against privacy rights and it gives governments unprecedented surveillance powers, right groups had argued.

18 May 2020 8:19 PM IST

The century-old technology firm called for responsible national standards regarding how facial recognition systems should be used by police agencies. In this photo

IBM opposes use of facial recognition for racial profiling, tips hat...

CEO Arvind Krishna says IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition software, won't condone use of any tech...

9 Jun 2020 7:13 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.

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

The law also grant the prime minister authority to give Shin Bet additional powers if required, sparking concerns about undue surveillance. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

Setting a controversial example, Israeli Parliament permits phone...

The law grants internal security agency Shin Bet permission to track cell phones for a three-week period on a...

2 July 2020 7:39 PM IST

Parliamentarians in the Rajya Sabha, on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, July 19, 2021. (RSTV/PTI Photo)

Houses erupt over snooping, government denies any surveillance

Opposition parties did not accept the response and have demanded an independent investigation into the allegations of...

20 July 2021 7:03 AM IST

Your Face Belongs to Us. (Image: DC)

Is anonymity extinct? What about privacy

Duplicate software have come out in the wake of Clearview which is still highly controversial

8 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

The home ministry also informed the panel that use of the Internet by terror groups in radicalising the youth was a big security challenge for the security agencies.

TMC gives notice in RS to discuss MHA notification on mass...

Opposition parties had cornered the central government over order by terming move an attempt to convert India into a...

28 Dec 2018 12:05 PM IST

On December 21, Centre authorised select security and intelligence agencies for purposes of interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource. (Representational Image)

SC denies urgent hearing on PIL challenging govt's surveillance...

Advocate ML Sharma who had filed a PIL in the SC on Monday challenging MHA order on grounds of it being 'illegal' and...

25 Dec 2018 11:56 AM IST

The powers that the executive sought, even in defiance of top court orders on the Aadhaar issue, were trimmed by a Constitution Bench.

Snooping Big Brother wants to put 130 crore people under surveillance

What we are up against is a Frankenstein of a government machinery on a feeding frenzy looking for more power over...

25 Dec 2018 12:42 AM IST