New Delhi: In one of the biggest medical data leak in India, Dr Lal PathLabs, among the country’s largest diagnostic chains, left data of millions of customers exposed in an unprotected cloud server. Cybersecurity expert from Melbourne claimed that the data was exposed for around a year and he estimates the number of patients whose […]

Are WhatsApp chats admissible as evidence before a court of law? Yes, but legal experts believe that there are big riders attached to it. Vikrant Singh Negi, a partner at DSK Legal who specialises in white-collar criminal law and data security cases, says like any regular document it will have to pass the scrutiny of […]

Of the many stories I grew up listening to, this has been playing on my mind for some time now. As a moral and ethical dilemma grips the post-modern, tech-driven world of music in the country, the story of a village singer suddenly rings true. A sangeet-visharad (master exponent of music) in a village ends […]

The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday banned another 118 Chinese-funded mobile apps, including the popular PubG, Alipay and Baidu, after terming them prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of the nation. The latest move comes a little over two months after the ministry of electronics and information technology banned 59 apps, including TikTok, amid […]

The Mumbai Police earlier this week arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly creating a fake profile of Bollywood playback singer Bhoomi Trivedi. The interrogation of the accused Abhishek Daude revealed that there are several such companies that sell followers and ‘likes’ on social media. Mumbai Police have now decided to widen the scope of the […]

TikTok is under investigation for allegedly violating a settlement reached with US authorities last year that resolved charges the popular app broke rules governing how children’s personal information is treated online. The US Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, and the Justice Department, which often files court actions […]