Over the past few years, there have been numerous reports on how personal user data was breached by mobile apps. The latest entrant in the list is the Maya app. As reported by Privacy International, Maya, a menstruation app was selling intimate data to third parties including Facebook. Many data privacy experts believe there are […]

Facebook has squared off for battle against Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani over India’s tough data privacy regulations. On Thursday, Facebook’s vice-president for global affairs and communications Nick Clegg slammed India’s inward-looking policy of fiercely storing the repository of data gathered from its citizens within the country and stopping global corporations from mining it for […]

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With the growing incidence caused by fake forwarded messages through social media platforms, top legal experts have urged the government to come up with guidelines for regulating social media “within 3-4 weeks.” “It is important for India to frame a regulation that is effective in curbing fake news and making legal enforcement more effective. Such […]

A boy’s suicide this week in southern India after his mother scolded him for playing a popular online game has inflamed a national debate over whether the game should be banned. The 16-year-old’s father demanded a ban on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, after his son hanged himself from a ceiling fan at […]