- Paytm Shares Full Page Clarification: No Data Is Shared With Anyone “Nothing can be further from the truth.” This may be a phrase for anyone at Paytm sometime back, but this is how the Vijay Shekhar Sharma led company is defending itself against the Cobra Sting video, which has gone viral in last 24 hours. In a recent blog post, the company has given a full […]
- Paytm Claims User Data Secure After Sting Video Claims Data Of Users Given To Government Hours after a sting video was released on Youtube showing two senior Paytm executives on camera allegedly discussing to run a covert political campaign and disclosing they were requested by the government to give user data, India’s digital payment giant has claimed that there is absolutely “no truth” in the content. The controversial video has […]
- Orkut Founder Says ‘Hello’ To India, Wants To Make Social Networks ‘Happy’ Again Almost four years after the shutdown of the once-popular social media network Orkut, its founder Orkut Büyükkökten introduced yet another social media app — Hello Network — in April this year. Hello has been conceived to enable users with “authentic interactions” around topics or things they are passionate about. “There is a need for more […]
- How GDPR Will Affect Indian Startups Processing Data From EU “AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than, I dunno, electricity or fire,” said Sundar Pichai, speaking at a town hall event in San Francisco in January. Come end-May and data collection and processing, which is at the core of this all-important, revolutionary technology, is going […]
- Facebook Responds To GoI’s Second Notice, Says It’s Committed To Protecting Data Privacy Responding to the second letter sent by the government of India over ‘Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal’, Facebook has reiterated its commitment to protecting people’s information. The Ministry of Electronics and IT had served the second notice to Facebook shortly after finding the first reply from the British data firm Cambridge Analytica “cryptic and evasive”. […]
- Linking Aadhaar With SIM Cards Might Soon Become A Licensing Condition Soon after the government asked telecom operators to accept KYC (Know Your Customer) documents other than Aadhaar for SIM verification, attorney-general KK Venugopal informed the Supreme Court that this was just a temporary measure and therefore, soon Aadhaar verification will be made applicable for licensing condition. As per reports, Venugopal claimed that the Supreme Court […]
- Ex-Googler Neeraj Arora May Replace The Outgoing WhatsApp CEO While Facebook continues to play defence on its commitment to data privacy, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum has decided to move on from the company. In an emotional Facebook post, Koum wrote, “I’m leaving at a time when people are using WhatsApp in more ways than I could have imagined. The team is stronger […]
- Vivek Wadhwa On The Dark Side Of Technology, End Of Bitcoin And More As India leads as the third largest ecosystem in the world, the country is exemplifying its growth story through its numbers before the global stage. As per a 2017 report, the Indian startup ecosystem added over 1,000+ tech startups in 2017, taking the total number of tech startups to the range of 5,000-5,200. However, we have […]
- Facebook Hints Another Cambridge Analytica-Like Data Breach In what could be yet another massive Facebook data breach, like that of Cambridge Analytica (CA), more “instances of misuse of user data or other undesirable activity by third parties” is expected, Facebook said in its quarterly report shared with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. As per reports, in the filing, […]
- Apologetic Facebook To Alert Affected Users In The Cambridge Analytica Data Breach The storm over Facebook for its involvement in the Cambridge Analytica data breach is hardly over. The newest development to hit the stands is that Facebook will start sharing elaborate details with its 87 Mn users who might have shared their data with the Cambridge Analytica. The social media giant has confirmed that more than […]
- In Light Of Facebook Privacy Breach, RBI Asks Payment System Operators To Store User Data Within India After cracking down on cryptocurrency-related services, the RBI has now asked all payment system operators in the country to store data – pertaining to their customers – within India. The move is geared towards ensuring that user details remain secure against privacy breaches. As per reports, the payment system companies have been given six months […]
- Facebook Wants Indian Users To Open New Accounts By Using Their Names As On Aadhaar Cards While the Supreme Court of India has extended Aadhaar linking to all services to March 31, 2018, it has found yet another interesting use case. Social network giant Facebook now wants users to use their names as listed in their Aadhaar cards while creating new accounts. According to Facebook, this is an optional prompt and […]