Data Leak

Data Protection Act 2022 to protect data, not to control it: Anisul Huq

Law minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said the Data Protection Act 2022 aims to protect data, not to control it

Hacker claims to have stolen 1b records of Chinese citizens from police

A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data ...

Giant client data leak puts fresh pressure on Credit Suisse

Switzerland's financial watchdog said it was in contact with Credit Suisse after media outlets published results of coordinated, Panama Papers-style investigations into a leak of data on thousands of ...

Rising tide of leaks threatens to inundate Facebook

Facebook held back from doing all it could to stop users from being radicalised and US election misinformation from flooding the social network

Govt seeks control over people’s personal information

The draft says the government could collect any information of a person with his/her consent and use those whenever necessary

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Indian opposition disrupts parliament, seeks probe into Pegasus

Opposition members said they wanted an independent probe into the complaints of spying and the resignation of interior minister Amit Shah

Amazon shuts down Pegasus-owner NSO Group's infrastructure

After the massive Pegasus spyware controversy, Amazon Web Services shut down infrastructure and accounts linked to the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group

50,000 phone numbers worldwide on list linked to Israeli spyware: Reports

The leak was of a list of more than 50,000 smartphone numbers believed to have been identified as people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016