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Privacy

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Zoom admits to blocking activists and ending meetings on the request of Chinese govt, to make changes to enable blocking participants in particular countries...

OpIndia Staff - 13 June, 2020

Zoom admitted terminating accounts outside mainland China and shutting down their meetings on request of Chinese government.

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Searching porn in incognito? Google is possibly recording you, and now it has been sued for $5 billion

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2020

Google has been slapped with a lawsuit seeking $5 billion, accusing the search giant of privacy infringements by tracking internet activity of users using browser in the 'private or incognito' mode

News Reports

Welcome to the Aarogya Setu App: A quick look at the app that is helping India fight Coronavirus and how it works

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2020

The Government of India has launched the Aarogya Setu App to assist the fight against the Wuhan Coronavirus.

News Reports

Centre formulates protocols for Aarogya Setu App’s data management, uses will be able to request deletion of their data

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2020

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.

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Online learning platform Unacademy hacked, details of 22 million users available for sale: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2020

Reportedly, the records include usernames, hashed passwords (SHA-256), date joined, last login date, email addresses, first and last names, account profile (staff member/a superuser), account status etc.

News Reports

Aarogya Setu replies to French ethical hacker who flagged privacy issues, clarifies no personal data compromised

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2020

Aarogya Setu determines the location of the person and informs whether he is in proximity to a Coronavirus positive patient.

News Reports

Kerala government in dock over breaching the privacy of people under quarantine: Read details about Sprinklr data scam

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2020

The data of more than 1.75 lakh symptomatic patients were collected and transferred to a private company named Sprinklr by Kerala govt.

News Reports

Database with 267 million Facebook user profiles sold on the dark web: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 24 April, 2020

The leaked user records comprised of unique Facebook IDs, email addresses, age, and even phone numbers.

Opinions

Is China using Zoom teleconferencing to spy on us?

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2020

While Zoom was headquartered in the United States, and listed on the NASDAQ, the mainline Zoom app appears to be developed by three companies in China

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