WhatsApp and its dubious claims
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May 24, 2021 00:40 IST
The claim that the new privacy policy is applicable to only the business version of the app is not comforting
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The claim that the new privacy policy is applicable to only the business version of the app is not comforting
The learned senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Arvind Datar submitted to the Delhi High Court that WhatsApp’s contentious new privacy policy came into effect from May 15, 2021. Mr. Sibal raised the central question of national importance, “The question is, does India have a public policy for privacy? If a public policy of privacy is there in India, does it apply to WhatsApp policy?” This question acquires relevance due to the dominant market status of WhatsApp-Facebook-Instagram. In its affidavit to the Delhi High Court, WhatsApp defended its privacy policy and explicitly named Google, Microsoft, Zoo
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Indonesian govt says social security data breach much smaller than claimed
A hacker claimed he had access to data on Indonesia s entire population of more than 270 million people.PHOTO: AFP
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A hacker claimed he had access to data on Indonesia s entire population of more than 270 million people. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): Indonesia s Communication and Information Ministry has confirmed a leak of social security data but insisted the breach was much smaller in scale than claimed by the hacker.
Last week, a user with the handle Kotz posted on an online forum frequented by hackers samples of data, such as names, citizenship identity numbers, residential addresses and phone numbers of one million Indonesian citizens.
Kotz claimed it had access to data on the entire population of more than 270 million people.
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The rollout of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook, received a blow on May 13 after German regulators temporarily banned the update. The regulators are now said to be seeking a European Union-wide ban by presenting their case to the European Data Protection Board.
WhatsApp users will have noticed a recent intensification of pop-ups nudging them to agree to the app’s new terms of service. The cliff-edge deadline for users to accept these new terms – with WhatsApp announcing that those who failed to do so would lose functionality on the app – had been set for Saturday, May 15. That deadline was recently moved forward by “several weeks”.