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Government control on OTT, news portals, The Telegraph, 14 oct 2020
The government has moved to regulate content on video streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix besides online news portals, rejecting a code of self-regulation that 15 OTT platforms had signed in September. The audiovisual content of over-the-top (OTT) apps, and news and currentaffairs content on online media have been brought under the […]
Dr lal pathlabs data leak-legal opinions on liabilities, punishments ,penalty-the 420.in, 10 oct 2020
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 […]
Bollywood drugs probe raises questions on digital privacy , India News, 29 Sept 2020
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 […]
Why we need more women leaders in cybersecurity, May 21, 2020
When Britain was clueless about the importance of computers as engines of growth and men felt lazy about machine work, they hired women as “low-level drones” in the technology industry during the World War II through to the 1960s. This segment of the female workforce cracked enemy codes, ran large electromechanical computers and worked out […]
PubG and 117 apps banned, the telegraph, 2020
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 […]
Explained: The business of fake social media accounts, revealed in Mumbai arrest,Indian express, 22 july 2020
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 […]