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16 hours ago | Economy & Policy
Insurance premium growth rate falls 50% in 2017-18: Irdai data
The fastest growing general insurer in 2017-18 is Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company, which registered an annual premium growth rate of 346.78%
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18 hours ago | International
Facebook spent $3.3 mn on lobbying amid Cambridge Analytica data scandal
The world's largest social-media company lobbied on issues including federal privacy legislation, online advertising, internet privacy and security
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April 21, 2018, Saturday | Technology
Google's new messaging app 'Chat' prone to cyber attacks, warns Amnesty
End-to-end encryption is a way of scrambling digital data so that only the sender and recipient can see it
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April 21, 2018, Saturday | Companies
Data privacy row: Google spent $5 mn on lobbying in Q1, Facebook $3.3 mn
Google, Facebook, Amazon being scrutinised over responsibility for online content, potential market dominance, competition for govt contracts
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April 21, 2018, Saturday | Current Affairs
Cambridge Analytica row: Europe working to make data privacy a human right
Mark Zuckerberg played dumb when Congress pressed him on privacy protections. But he should know better - the EU is already forcing his hand.
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April 21, 2018, Saturday | Companies
Google, FB, Visa seek time to set up data centres, to meet RBI officers
According to sector insiders, global payments technology players such as Visa, e-commerce giant Amazon India and tech majors such as Google have data centres in India
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April 21, 2018, Saturday | International
PricewaterhouseCoopers cleared Facebook's privacy practices in leak period
Facebook has been under scrutiny from lawmakers across the world since disclosing that the personal information of 87 mn FB users wrongly ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Current Affairs
How sudden spike in cash demand led to a major cash crunch in many states
These currency stocks should have been adequate for India's average requirements-if Indians had adopted digital transactions
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Economy & Policy
Fintech firms irked at RBI's order to store payments data in India
While most banks in India store all this data on Indian servers in their core banking systems, the current directive addresses new-age payment and fintech companies operating in the space
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Finance
Personal loans account for 96% of new bank loans during FY18: RBI data
A slump in fresh investment by corporate sector key reason
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Opinion
Data localisation blues
Forcing companies to store data within India needs rethink
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Current Affairs
News digest: Battle for Essar Steel, TCS Q4 results, cash crunch, and more
In the March quarter, TCS net profit stood at Rs 69 billion, a 4.7 per cent year-on-year growth rate and 5.71 per cent sequential growth
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April 20, 2018, Friday | Finance
ATM cash crunch: Inactive point of sale terminals to be redeployed
The number of PoS terminals deployed has also stagnated since April 2017 as confirmed by RBI data and industry experts, due to inactivity of existing PoS machines
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April 19, 2018, Thursday | Finance
IndusInd Q4 net up 26% at Rs 9.5 bn; divergence seen with RBI on NPA data
The divergence between the bank's NPA accounting and that of the central bank was Rs 10.54 bn
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April 19, 2018, Thursday | International
Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law
That removes a huge potential liability for Facebook, as the new EU law allows for fines of up to 4 percent of global annual revenue for infractions
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April 19, 2018, Thursday | Economy & Policy
UIDAI introduces new QR code for offline Aadhaar verification; top updates
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has brought an updated QR code on e-Aadhaar. Aadhaar card holders can now download and print their biometric ID from the UIDAI website. Details here
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April 19, 2018, Thursday | Economy & Policy
Amid data scandal, Facebook rolls out new privacy choices under EU rules
The statement said users will be told that facial recognition is optional, but that it could offer some benefit, such as being notified when someone is using an unauthorized picture
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April 19, 2018, Thursday | Economy & Policy
Supreme Court says biometric authentication of Aadhaar prone to misuse
If a person is unable to get ration due to failure of authentication, then any other family member can produce the Aadhaar number to get the benefits
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April 18, 2018, Wednesday | International
Facebook says users must accept targeted ads even under new EU law
The EU law, which takes effect next month, promises the biggest shakeup in online privacy since the birth of the internet.
