Tag: Privacy

China is exporting its model of digital authoritarianism abroad with the help of its far-reaching tech industry and massive infrastructure projects, offering a blueprint of “best practices” to neighbours including Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam, a human rights watchdog has warned. In 2015, two years after kicking off its massive ...

The three main contenders of the Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir going to the polls on April 19 are crorepatis, according to their election affidavits submitted to the Election Commission. Choudhary Lal Singh, who recently rejoined the Congress and is contesting his fourth Lok Sabha election from ...

TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over the past few weeks. It now faces a Congressional bill, “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which would force ByteDance to divest TikTok to avoid the ...

Examining the implications on individual rights, surveillance powers and the balance between national security and privacy in the proposed legislation The introduction of the Telecom Bill, 2023, heralds a significant juncture in the ongoing evolution of legislative frameworks governing telecommunications in India. Emerging almost a year subsequent to the ...

The Telecommunication Bill, 2023 was passed by the Parliament on Thursday, within four days of being introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The bill, governing telecommunication services and telecommunication networks in India, replaces the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933.The upcoming law has ...

Warning: This story contains distressing details.The boy left orphaned after an Islamophobic attack on the Afzaal family says he wishes he could still have his sister to fight with, his mom's cooking and the house he grew up in. He also longs for the plans that will never happen, like being in ...

On an October evening in 1964, two doctors and several policemen sat around a landline in a Mumbai suburb, intently listening to a conversation between two doctors and an officer of the coroner’s court, which is responsible for the conduct of post-mortems for police investigations. Supervised by the police, ...

A new washroom with a five-feet high wall and a door has been constructed for Imran Khan in the Attock jail cell. The former Pakistan prime minister had complained about the poor living conditions and lack of privacy. The Punjab Prisons Department has stated that all facilities available under ...

Currently, one of the most dynamic and contentious issues in the field of law is the ongoing debate surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its profound effects on privacy. AI is a sophisticated technology that allows computer systems to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, including ...

Pune: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said data security and data privacy are the biggest challenges of the digital world and issues connected to them are expected to be addressed during the G20 meeting.The EAM was addressing the ‘Festival of Thinkers’ organised by the Symbiosis International University ...