Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians
Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy
COVID-19: Experts raise privacy concerns about Aarogya Setu app
Prime Minister Modi had asked Indians to register on the app in the fight against coronavirus
Henrietta Lacks: The troubling legacy of a Black woman’s cells
Ethical concerns over her cells, the most widely used in research, are in the spotlight as family seeks reparation
‘Facial recognition technology will hamper people’s right to freedom of expression and privacy’
Anushka Jain of non-profit Internet Freedom Foundation, Delhi, talks about the concerns that surround the use of facial recognition …
India’s proposed rules to curb web content to undercut digital freedom, privacy
Changes envisaged are far-reaching, making intermediaries accountable for content on their platforms; no longer eligible for safe harbour …
Privacy: UNESCO to develop ethical framework on neurotech devices
Neurotechnology could help solve many health issues, but it could also access and manipulate people’s brains, and produce information about …
Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: What we found in six African countries
Governments are purposefully using laws that lack clarity. Or they ignore laws completely in order to carry out illegal digital surveillance of …
Is India moving towards a mass surveillance state
India is building one of the largest facial recognition technology systems in the world
China’s ‘surveillance creep’: How big data COVID-19 monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic
A more robust system was constructed to collect and monitor big data related to pandemic control
WHO releases guidelines on how countries can use digital health technology
Guidelines stress on protecting patients’ privacy and providing supportive environments for dealing with unstable infrastructure
Existing data privacy protections in India no longer enough: experts
They call for expediting the process of making a data protection law
How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers
The law requires express, explicit, unequivocal, free, specific and informed consent to personal data processing from the data subjects
The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices: A lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy
Many Afghans fear that the identity documents and databases storing personally identifiable data could be transformed into death warrants in the …
The next phase of the internet is coming: Here’s what you need to know about Web3
Web3 is envisioned to be a “decentralized web ecosystem,” empowering users to bypass internet gatekeepers and retain ownership of …
Supreme Court upholds the constitutional validity of Aadhaar
Aadhaar will no longer be required to be given to banks, cellphone firms, schools or offices but would be required for filing I-T returns
How data science in and for Africa can blaze new trails
Data science, led by Africa-based scientists, could play a key role in addressing issues like improving access and equity in health care, …
Facebook is restricting search results – is this taking transparency seriously?
Facebook is deliberately limiting the number of archived public messages anyone can see: hiding many messages sent by all manner of Facebook pages
Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds
How the Cambridge academic Michal Kosinski’s model is able to predict someone’s personality profile just on the basis of 300 likes
World Consumer Rights Day: Know your digital rights
Some immediete steps: Skip the skip button, the quick log-in economy
Farm to Facebook: India’s catch-up evolution in techno-policy landscape
India needs to work out problems in old policies and develop new ones that ensure a rapid tectonic shift in India’s technological future
Silicon Valley wants to read your mind. Here's why you should be worried
Mind-reading systems — such as Facebook's brainwave-reading device and Neuralink’s brain implants — can affect our privacy, …
Wave of big data and the swaying ship of public health in India
Big data can be a game-changer, only if adequate measures for capacity building, technological advancement, data privacy, logistics and …
Privacy concerns, no consultation: Farmer and digital rights groups write to Centre on AgriStack
The current framework is not in the best interests of the farmers, says letter
Only 11% low-income countries make their data open: World Bank report
Gaps in data on women and girls particularly severe; countries do not invest enough in public intent data systems, the report said
Disha Ravi arrest: Role of Google, tech companies under cloud
There are also concerns over government’s use of ‘back-door means’ to quell dissent