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Subhash Rai
Aarogya Setu: The Bridge to Nowhere
08 Jun 2020
‘If technology has to help in the contact tracing process, the onus lies with governments to convince the public to recognise its benefits, while enforcing the rights of its people at the same time.’
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Brace Yourself, Govt Plans to Peek into Every Detail of Your Life
17 Mar 2020
The proposed National Social Registry, seeded by Aadhaar, is expected to be in place by 2022 and will be able to zero-in on details ranging from citizens’ movements to births, deaths and marriages in…
Tarique Anwar
Facial Recognition May Misidentify Lawful Citizens as Suspects, Say Experts
12 Mar 2020
Facial features are biometric data, which is sensitive personal data, say experts, calling for a law or policy before use of such technology that would fringe upon freedom of speech, assembly and…
Prabir Purkayastha
Ministers Play Hide-and-Seek in Parliament on Pegasus
22 Nov 2019
Replies in Parliament by two ministers ducked the question whether a government agency used Pegasus to hack citizens phones.
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Parliament Session: Govt Continues to Undermine Criticism of New Laws
20 Jul 2019
Almost the entire opposition walked out during the voting for the introduction of RTI amendment bill.
Prasanth R.
A $5 Billion Fine Won't Stop Facebook's Exploitative Business Model
19 Jul 2019
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the implication of the $5 billion settlement Facebook has reached with the US Federal Trade Commission
Vivan Eyben
DNA Bill Unclear on Consent and Privacy
12 Jul 2019
The DNA Bill seeks to establish Regional Data Banks as well as a National Data Bank.
Vivan Eyben
Elections 2019: EC Says Electoral Bonds to have Serious Impact on Transparency
28 Mar 2019
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Association for Democratic Reforms’ application to stay the sale of electoral bonds during the Lok Sabha elections on April 2.
IANS
773 Million Unique Email IDs Leaked: Web Researcher
17 Jan 2019
Web security researcher Troy Hunt said this data leak was part of the "Collection #1" which is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.
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Aadhaar Goes Back to Court
26 Dec 2018
Two petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court to review the September 26 Judgement which upheld Aadhaar’s Constitutional validity.