Data security

Data Protection Bill among 31 legislations on government's agenda for monsoon session of Parliament

The Bill does not seek to regulate non-personal data and the Union government is expecting to present it in the Parliament in the next budget session.

The provisional findings against TikTok came a year after Britain introduced the Children's Code, a data protection code of practice for online services accessed by children.

WhatsApp has filed a petition against the Government of India on May 25 in the Delhi High Court protesting against the new IT rules that require "significant social media intermediaries" like WhatsApp to trace the original senders of particular messages.

The Commission has directed the Director General to initiate a probe against WhatsApp under Section 26(1) of Competition Act

In case users do not comply with Whatsapp's new policies, for a short duration they would be able to receive calls and notification, but they won't be able to read or send messages from the app from May 15 onwards.

A website launched by Congress to solicit applications to become its ‘social media warrior’ is leaking their data.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stated that his country is also exploring options to ban Chinese apps, including TikTok that threat data security.

Forbes noted that while TikTok had vowed to put an end to this 'invasive practice,' but it continued unabated as late as April.

The protocol ensures that it will not share the Aarogya Setu data with any third party until it is extremely necessary to formulate or implement health responses.