privacy laws Archives

News Reports

Chinese app TikTok may be fined to the tune of $29 million for not protecting the privacy of children. Here is what we know...

OpIndia Staff - 27 September, 2022

The provisional findings against TikTok came a year after Britain introduced the Children's Code, a data protection code of practice for online services accessed by children.

News Reports

‘We need Aatmanirbhar Internet, have to make it difficult for Big Tech to be weaponized against India’: MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

OpIndia Staff - 28 March, 2022

Rajeev Chandrasekhar stressed on the fact that the Russia-Ukraine war has shown that Big-Tech companies can weaponize the internet to further political goals.

News Reports

‘Deferring deadline does not absolve WhatsApp’: Modi govt again gives stern warning over privacy policy

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Earlier, WhatsApp had announced that its new controversial privacy policy has been deferred and it wont come into effect on May 15th.

OpIndia Explains

Don’t fall for propaganda! WhatsApp will not have to breach end-to-end-encryption to follow the new IT guidelines

RS Govind - 1 March, 2021

We're all well aware that the Govt of India has recently notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

News Reports

After India banned them over privacy concerns, TikTok claims it will pull out of Hong Kong due to ‘new Chinese law’

OpIndia Staff - 7 July, 2020

TikTok has claimed it will pull out of Hong Kong as sharing user data is against its policy.

Opinions

Time to act against a threat that can’t be ignored: Here is how Chinese TikTok poses a threat to Indian sovereignty and national security

K Bhattacharjee - 28 August, 2019

The privacy policies of TikTok are a matter of concern considering the fact that user information can be accessed by the Chinese government and that, could be a threat to national security.

Opinions