Page 10 - Data Protection
How the web lost its innocence
And how it could return to its original egalitarian goals
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Need for data protection law, ensuring privacy to users crucial: Experts
Explosion of data, its storage and multiple uses of such information have made it critical to build safeguards against data breaches
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Panel grapples with age limit to sign up for social media sites
Privacy committee looks at European model; first concept paper likely soon
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Go beyond data localisation
Indian laws should apply regardless of where it is located
Have set up panel on data protection in India: Centre tells Supreme Court
Asked Facebook, WhatsApp to file affidavits stating part of data users share with third parties
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Indian firms yet to realise importance of protecting user data
SC said in Right to Privacy judgment that electronic tracks contain powerful means of information
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Give data access to consumers, not companies, says Nandan Nilekani
Former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani suggest that the government should create a policy framework that gives consumers access to the data they create while using digital services rather than allowing entities build data silos for their own benefit.Arguing that by inverting the control of data away from entities that gather them and giving it to the individuals producing them, India will be able to ensure privacy, keep data colonisation at bay and boost competitiveness. "Every second, three more Indians are experiencing the Internet for the first time (and) is getting headlocked into a digital era at a pace never seen before...But how do you convert this data in such a way that it benefits everybody? That's a strategic question," said Nilekani, at an event in Bengaluru on Wednesday.Taking a view that India is starkly different from the West when it comes to digitisation because people were already rich there when smartphones began making in-roads a decade ago, Nilekani said India ...
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Will have regulatory regime on data protection: Govt to SC
Facebook has filed an application raising issues on maintainability of plea against WhatsApp
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How to protect your private data when you travel to the United States
Intimidating travellers into revealing passwords is a much greater invasion of privacy
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