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The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Facebook and WhatsApp and sought their response on a plea challenging WhatsApp s latest privacy policy which was introduced in January this year in India. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde observed that people s privacy must be protected in view of the allegation that users data was being shared with other companies. There is a concern that circuit of messages is revealed by WhatsApp, the apex court observed.
The Bench further said that citizens have great apprehension about loss of their privacy and they think that their data and chats being shared with others and it has to be looked into.
You may be worth 2-3 trillion but privacy is more valuable to people: SC tells Facebook, WhatsApp - "You maybe two or three trillion companies but people value their privacy more than money. It is our duty to protect their privacy," said the court.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 15
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Facebook and WhatsApp on a plea challenging their new privacy policy.
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Brazilian government urged to protect consumers from massive data leak
A consumer rights organization has called for urgent measures to investigate and punish those responsible for exposing the population s data, as well as better citizen information and transparency.
February 10, 2021 00:07 GMT (16:07 PST) | Topic: Security
A Brazilian consumer rights watchdog has urged the federal government to take immediate and urgent action to protect citizens who had their personal details exposed online.
The notices sent by the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (IDEC) to several government agencies relate to a massive data leak, which saw details of 223 million Brazilians, ranging from name, address to current income, personal vehicle information and tax returns exposed and sold in the dark web.
Key takeaways:
Government has carte blanche: Both Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 and the expert committee report on Non Personal Data give the government wide-ranging powers to collect and analyse data, without adequate safeguards
GDPR not ‘revolutionary’: GDPR only evolved existing privacy and data protection laws, it did not radically alter how companies collect and use data
Inferred data needs to be dealt specifically: There is a need to strenghten specific provisions to safeguard individual libery and community rights when it comes to inferred data
Privacy within context of hierarchies: Need to think of privacy within contexts and in terms of hierarchies, when swathes of data are analysed by artificial intelligence and automated tools