Topic: Privacy
SHe-Box Portal
The SHe-Box portal has been launched to address workplace sexual harassment, which is part of the government’s commitment to creating safer work environments and it has been operational...
What is Digital India Bill?
The Digital India Bill is the proposed successor to the Information Technology Act, of 2000, which currently regulates entities on the internet in India. The government will hold...
What are voice deepfakes?
Deepfakes is the process of mimicking the voice of a person. Talking in their tone and style; like a mimicry. However, here the mimicry is done using the...
National Data Governance Policy
Data governance is managing data usage, data security, data availability, and data integrity. During the Union Budget 2023 presentation, the finance minister Smt Nirmala Sitaraman announced that GoI...
Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022
The Central Government released the new Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. It is expected to be introduced in the Indian Parliament in 2023 during the budget...
UIDAI on Using Aadhar data in crime investigations
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has told the Delhi High Court that fingerprints found at a crime scene cannot be matched against the Aadhaar database to...
Directions to VPN providers to collect customer data
Recently, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a new directive to Virtual private network (VPN) service providers. What is the directive about? The CERT-In directive mandates...
Facebook Data leak, 2021
The personal data of more than 533 million Facebook users has been leaked online recently. The exposed data included personal information of the Facebook users from more than...
Special Marriage Act
The Allahabad High Court recently ruled that couples planning to marry under Special Marriage Act shall choose not to publish thirty-day notice before registering their marriage. According to...
Corona Kavach: Application launched by GoI to locate a COVID-19 positive patient
On April 2, 2020, the Government of India launched Corona Kavach application to map the location of a COVID-19 positive patient through GPS. Highlights The application has been...
Arogya Setu: Mulit-Lingual Mobile Application launched by GoI to track COVID-19
On April 2, 2020, National Informatics Center operating under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has developed an application “Arogya Sethu”. The app alerts the person whenever he...
