User Data Information

CoinDCX says some user data exposed in breach at third party; funds safe

CoinDCX has disclosed that a breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed some user data, though customer funds and platform systems were not affected

Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly 'scraping' user data to train Claude

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit's content despite being asked not to do so, and intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent. Anthropic said in a statement that it disagreed with Reddit's claims "and will defend ourselves vigorously. Reddit filed the lawsuit Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where both companies are based. AI companies should not be allowed to scrape information and content from people without clear limitations on how they can use that data, said Ben Lee, Reddit's chief legal officer, in a statement Wednesday. Reddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and other companies to enable them to train their AI systems on Reddit commentary. T

X outage eases as reports drop in US, UK, Downdetector data shows

The number of reports in the U.S. dropped to 403 as of 6:24 a.m. ET from more than 21,000 incidents earlier, user-submitted data on Downdetector showed

Austrian group accuses Google of tracking users on Chrome browser

NYOB has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority claiming that Google's new 'Privacy Sandbox' still allows tech giant to track browser users

Meta launches an integrated safety campaign to tackle misinformation

It will also encourage people to verify information that sounds suspicious or inaccurate via fact-checking organisations on WhatsApp Channels, said the company

Online platforms may need to delete data of users inactive for 3yrs

New Digital Personal Data Protection Rules proposed by the government may require online platforms, including e-commerce, gaming, and social media, to permanently delete data of inactive users

Data Protection Act: What 'behavioural change' the law wants to bring

As per the Act, the govt may come out with rules directing the platforms about expected line of action to comply with all the provisions

Italy orders OpenAI to stop processing users' data else face fine

OpenAI will have to notify the Italian regulators within 20 days of the measures implemented to comply with the order, otherwise a fine of up to 20mn euros or 4% of its total worldwide annual turnover

Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen by hacker, put for sale on dark web

The stolen data includes information about the WHO, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others

Meta to pay $725 mn damages for sharing user data with Cambridge Analytica

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica

Received 55,497 requests for user data from Indian government: Meta

India with 55,497 requests was once again second only to the US in terms of asking Meta to provide user data in the first half of this year

Telegram founder warns users to stay away from WhatsApp yet again

Founder Pavel Durov claimed that the company has been keeping the user's data under surveillance for the past 13 years

TikTok hacked, over 2 bn user database records stolen: Security researchers

Cyber-security researchers on Monday discovered a potential data breach in Chinese short-form video app TikTok, allegedly involving up to 2 billion user database records

Snap agrees to pay $35 mn over illegal user data collection in US

Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection

Twitter warns against governments ramping up demands for user details

Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop on private details of user accounts at an alarming rate

'Take it down': Indian requests to social media firms at record highs

Twitter got the largest rise in government demand about content compared to the pre-pandemic period

Alternative data insights startup Synaptic raises $20 mn from Valor

Synaptic is used by leading venture capital and private equity firms, Hedge Funds, and Asset Managers globally with combined assets of several hundred billion dollars

Facebook has no idea how to manage personal user data, say reports

According to the tech website Engadget, privacy engineers on Facebook's Ad and Business Product team wrote a report last year, intending it to be read by the company's leadership

TikTok-Oracle deal to store users' data in US back on track; Reports

Chinese short-video making platform TikTok is finalising a deal with Cloud major Oracle to store users data in the US without giving access to its Chinese parent company ByteDance, the media reported.

Data is information, will dictate history in the future, says PM Modi

Speaking at the Audit Diwas event of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), he said in the past information was transmitted in form of stories.