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By Hera Rizwan A recent study by Mozilla has highlighted that dating apps are increasingly disregarding strong privacy standards and are gathering an extensive amount of data to attract Gen Z users. Researchers examined various dating apps and observed a trend towards heightened data collection and intrusion. Mozilla evaluated 25 apps, categorising 22 of them as "Privacy Not Included," denoting the lowest rating in Mozilla's assessment framework. The only app to receive a positive review was Lex, which is Queer-owned and operated, while Harmony and Happn received acceptable ratings. “If dating...
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By Hera Rizwan In a massive data breach, personally identifiable information of 81.5 crore Indians has been up on the dark web for sale, according to areport by US-based cybersecurity firm Resecurity. The stolen data includes Aadhaar and passport details, names, phone numbers, and both temporary and permanent addresses of crores of Indians. As reported by Resecurity, on October 9, an individual using the pseudonym "pwn0001" made a post on Breach Forums, a darknet crime forum, where they offered access to a dataset containing 81.5 crore records with information related to "Indian Citizen Aadhaa...
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By Hera Rizwan The phrase "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" has become symbolic of the way people interact with major social media corporations that primarily operate by collecting data and capturing user attention, which are then made available to advertisers. A recent research by The Money Mongers found that 76% of the top 100 apps on the Apple App store collect and share their user data in some or the other form. The report found that over half of these companies share their users’ data with third parties while nearly three-quarters collect data for their own benef...
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By Hera Rizwan Google has announced that passkeys will now be the default sign-in method for all users, marking the beginning of the end for passwords. The company announced, on Tuesday, that people will no more need a password to securely sign in to accounts. Passkeys enable users to log in to apps and websites using a biometric sensor (such as facial recognition or fingerprint) or a PIN. In contrast to passwords, they are resilient to online threats such as phishing, rendering them a more secure option than methods like SMS one-time codes. The search engine giant said that the move is being ...
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By Titha Ghosh Anantya always had a knack for recording herself on camera–be it unboxing toys or playing dress-up. Now as missmyanand, 13-year-old Anantya is a social media personality with 13.7 million followers on YouTube and 600,000 followers on Instagram. The ‘influencer’ culture has grown rapidly over the past decade and that includes child personalities or “kidfluencers” with large followings on social media. These pages are usually run by the children themselves or their family members. Anantya’s page is managed by her mother Nisha, who says their first upload was 9 years ago. “We recor...
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By Saurav Das In 2017, while delivering the landmark Right to Privacy judgement, a Supreme Court of India judge said, "Humans forget, the Internet does not, and does not let humans forget." Justice SK Kaul ruled that the right of an individual to exercise control over personal data and to be able to control their life would also encompass the right to control their existence on the Internet. The court found the ‘right to be forgotten’ an aspect of the right to privacy. Since then, courts across India have received several petitions seeking the deletion of personal information from search engin...
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By Rohini Chatterji Peiter Zatko, a former security officer at Twitter, has alleged that at one point the Indian government forced the company to put a person on its payroll, who was probably an agent. The Washington Post reported Zatko alleging that he was certain that this person was an agent of the Indian government and had access to user data during times of intense protests in the country. The US-based newspaper verified this information with an unnamed source, who also agreed that it was probably a government agent. While it does not specify what this period of intense protest was, it is...
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By Kaisar Andrabi The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), under the finance ministry, on August 8 notified the 'Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022', directing all international airlines to mandatorily share PNR (passenger name record) details of all passengers with the National Customs Targeting Centre-Passenger (NCTC -P), 24 hours prior to departure of flights. The regulations are aimed at "risk analysis" of passengers to prevent economic and other offenders from fleeing the country, as well as check any illicit trade, such as smuggling. However, tech experts ...
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By BOOM Team Facebook has come under criticism after reports suggested that the social media giant complied with US police and turned over the messages in an abortion case. The case involves 41-years-old Jessica Burgess allegedly helping her 17-year-old daughter to terminate a pregnancy in state of Nebraska. The alleged messages shared with the police included those where the duo were discussing how to obtain abortion pills. Also Read: US Supreme Court Ends Abortion Rights, Strikes Down Roe Vs Wade The incident has raised concerns over data privacy on social media since the tech giants have ac...
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By Saurav Das The arrest of Mohammed Zubair, journalist and co-founder of a fact-checking news website Alt News has sparked outrage not only on the issue of falling press freedom in India, but also on the issue of data privacy. On June 27, Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police for his four-year-old tweet referencing a still from a 32-year-old Bollywood movie. The Police alleged that his tweet "hurt religious sentiments". Later, the Police also alleged that he and his company violated provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) that bars non-profits from accessing foreign fun...
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