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 …

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

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 

UNESCO bats for more AI in Indian education; Will it work?

UN body recommends ethical, responsible use of artificial intelligence for quality education, experts point to digtal divide

Is India moving towards a mass surveillance state

India is building one of the largest facial recognition technology systems in the world

World Consumer Rights Day: Know your digital rights

Some immediete steps: Skip the skip button, the quick log-in economy  

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

New data protection law dilutes RTI, will impact marginalised and poor: Experts

May become difficult to hold the government accountable  

You shed DNA everywhere you go, raising ethical questions about privacy

Trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are