India
Database of private info of top Instagram influencers leaks online
The data leaks continue.
Facebook staff are manually looking at your personal photos
Experts say it’s a GDPR violation.
Soon you can use WhatsApp to receive two-factor authentication codes
SMS has always been considered an insecure option for receiving codes. However, Facebook’s reputation with privacy has to be considered.
Zuckerberg warns against government’s wanting to store their citizens data in their own countries
Data localization laws are already being enforced by the Chinese and Russian governments, however, the increasing concerns towards privacy protection have extended this trend to more democratic countries.
Tik Tok’s removal then return to the App Store in India shows how the App Store increasingly controls the internet
App-stores acting like border control, governments censoring users, on apps that impose “content filters” while covertly harvesting our data.
The fastest-growing worldwide app TikTok just got banned in India
They said the app was encouraging users to produce pornographic and otherwise elicit content.
The Pirate Bay, RARBG, 1337x, and more to be blocked in India
In other words, the court thinks that preventing access to “illegal content” does not contravene the principle of accessing and sharing online information without interference.
Two PewDiePie videos blocked in India after T-Series files takedown order in court
The Delhi High Court has directed YouTube to remove two of PewDiePie’s diss track videos and blocked access to both videos in India.
You were right to think Amazon staff can listen to your Alexa conversations
The recordings they listen to include customer’s first name, their device’s serial number, account number, and other personal information.
India proposes “the most sophisticated ID program” on the planet, to include a citizen’s Facebook, Twitter and biometric data
An unnamed government official has been cited as saying that the goal of the reported initiative was “to maintain the balance between an individual’s need for privacy while ensuring we don’t encourage negative things on the internet.”
WhatsApp finally fixes group privacy settings problem which exposed user phone numbers to strangers
WhatsApp appears to have made the changes now as part of its wider campaign to combat what it deems to be “fake news.”
YouTube continues its war on so-called misinformation by adding fact-checks to search results
YouTube moves one step closer to becoming an arbiter of truth by adding fact-checks and hoax alerts to its search results for topics that it deems to be spreading misinformation.