Is India moving towards a mass surveillance state

India is building one of the largest facial recognition technology systems in the world

Existing data privacy protections in India no longer enough: experts

 They call for expediting the process of making a data protection law

World Consumer Rights Day: Know your digital rights

Some immediete steps: Skip the skip button, the quick log-in economy  

Privacy concerns, no consultation: Farmer and digital rights groups write to Centre on AgriStack

The current framework is not in the best interests of the farmers, says letter

5G: A dangerous generation

Radiation fears mount as the world gets ready to embrace the network-intensive 5G

New data protection law dilutes RTI, will impact marginalised and poor: Experts

May become difficult to hold the government accountable  

Tracking Nilekani

You shed DNA everywhere you go, raising ethical questions about privacy

Trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are

Surveillance likely to be key issue in 2014 Internet conference

Concerns high over US control of Internet governance

Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians

Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy

COVID-19: Experts raise privacy concerns about Aarogya Setu app

Prime Minister Modi had asked Indians to register on the app in the fight against coronavirus

Henrietta Lacks: The troubling legacy of a Black woman’s cells

Ethical concerns over her cells, the most widely used in research, are in the spotlight as family seeks reparation

‘Facial recognition technology will hamper people’s right to freedom of expression and privacy’

Anushka Jain of non-profit Internet Freedom Foundation, Delhi, talks about the concerns that surround the use of facial recognition …

We have Right to Privacy, and that is fundamental

Government’s demand for making Aadhaar mandatory for almost every transaction does not seem to be a reasonable restriction on the Right to …

India’s proposed rules to curb web content to undercut digital freedom, privacy

Changes envisaged are far-reaching, making intermediaries accountable for content on their platforms; no longer eligible for safe harbour …

Privacy: UNESCO to develop ethical framework on neurotech devices

Neurotechnology could help solve many health issues, but it could also access and manipulate people’s brains, and produce information about …

SC verdict: Our right to privacy is fundamental; Aadhaar’s validity will be tested

A three-judge bench will decide whether Aadhaar is putting unreasonable restriction on people’s right to privacy

The DNA of a flawed Bill

A new Bill, if passed, will allow the government to collect and use DNA samples of suspected criminals as well as civilians, leaving the …

How Aadhaar evolved into an invisible tool to monitor almost all our transactions

Sold as a concept to plug leakages in welfare schemes, Aadhaar is now creating more problems than what it had set out to resolve

Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: What we found in six African countries

Governments are purposefully using laws that lack clarity. Or they ignore laws completely in order to carry out illegal digital surveillance of …

China’s ‘surveillance creep’: How big data COVID-19 monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic

A more robust system was constructed to collect and monitor big data related to pandemic control

WHO releases guidelines on how countries can use digital health technology

Guidelines stress on protecting patients’ privacy and providing supportive environments for dealing with unstable infrastructure

How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers

The law requires express, explicit, unequivocal, free, specific and informed consent to personal data processing from the data subjects

The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices: A lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

Many Afghans fear that the identity documents and databases storing personally identifiable data could be transformed into death warrants in the …

Supreme Court to hear writ petition to ban Whatsapp

Petitioner says that Whatsapp has adopted end-to-end encryption which compromises national security