Personal Data  

Tech giant, Google has faced a $5 billion lawsuit for collecting and storing incognito mode search data of its users. While the company has agreed to delete the data, it raises concerns over the state of data privacy and anonymity on the internet. 

The much needed Data Protection Bill 2019 will be tabled in the Parliament that proposes to regulate the data protection and  privacy. The draft bill had stated that any person processing data owes a duty to the data principal to process personal data in a fair and reasonable manner that respects the privacy of the data principal.
 

Key bills are expected to be tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament that begins today. Ahead of the commencement of the Winter Session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended an all-party leaders meeting, where he said that the government will seek to work together will all parties in a constructive manner to take up all pending legislative work.

The revelation was made after STF Noida busted a gang of credit card scam artists and arrested four fraudsters from Ghaziabad

The investigator linked the hack to extensive coverage by The Washington Post newspaper, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul last year

Cambridge Analytica uses pseudo-scientific methods such as the alleged mining of personal data without permission to influence voter and election behavior. In India, that means exploiting caste and religious fissures

Police said the woman, who was Sharma’s personal assistant, stole personal data and confidential information from Sharma’s laptop and threatened to leak the data and misuse the information to cause loss to the firm and dent its public image.