data privacy

NPCI may be planning to dump OTPS and PINS for UPI transactions, may go with bio-metrics https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/npci-may-be-planning-to-dump-otps-pins-for-upi-transactions/articleshow/112316982.cms

TLDW: Over 600K RMA records were exposed publicly due to their intranet site being exposed publicly, without auth and for all crawlers to see. Proof of purchase links allegedly publicly accessible, not crawlable. Records include customer information such as emails, phone numbers, addresses. The...

Reclaim your Privacy | Adblock is must ! because For entire home protection - there are multiple ways to block tracking and ads, which is not limited to deploying self-hosted solutions such as Pi-hole or AdGuardHome, many router firmware now has some way to block ads , for example OpenWrt's...

Aadhaar-based consent for children to go online proposed in new data protection rules Closed-door meeting with industry scheduled on Dec 19 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/aadhaar-based-consent-for-children-to-go-online-9071238/ Mostly if inducted for 'safety' reasons, this 'feature'...

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/ For their part, recently haven't...

Worldcoin: Sam Altman launches eyeball scanning crypto coin https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66128111 "According to the company most sign ups have happened in Europe, India and southern Africa." What differentiates WorldCoin from many existing cryptocurrency projects is its use of...

What is the Data Protection Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet? https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/digital-personal-data-protection-bill-union-cabinet-parliament-concerns-12833792.html The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill concerns itself with the online personal data of users or...