user data

Twitter's Indian rival Koo leaking users' personal data? Here's what French security researcher claims

The French security researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, posted a series of tweets to highlight his findings about the home-grown app Koo. Proving his point further, Baptiste posted a screenshot suggesting that it was fairly easy for him to access the personal information of the Koo users.

Feb 11, 2021, 13:42 PM IST

Beware! Fake links promising to run banned Chinese App TikTok being circulated to steal user data

Ever since several popular Chinese mobile applications, including video-sharing platform TikTok was banned by the government, several fake URLs have come to fore promising users a way to run the app in the country

Jul 23, 2020, 17:59 PM IST

People should have rights over their data; firms mere custodians: Trai

Terming the existing data protection framework as inadequate, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in a set of recommendations to DoT said that companies should not use meta-data to identify users and should disclose any data breaches.

Jul 17, 2018, 11:36 AM IST

Facebook details how it uses your personal information

Facebook published a psychological study involving 700,000 persons in 2014 that sparked controversy about the company's ethics. 

Jun 15, 2016, 16:32 PM IST

Government Caught Unawares, Yet Again!

Indian government’s ignorance and lackadaisical attitude is in focus once again with February 9, 2016 approaching near.

Feb 04, 2016, 21:33 PM IST

Google must face US privacy lawsuit over commingled user data

A federal judge rejected Google Inc`s bid to dismiss a privacy lawsuit claiming it commingled user data across different products and disclosed that data to advertisers without permission.

Jul 22, 2014, 22:42 PM IST