The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has asked WhatsApp to review the proposed privacy policy changes and also to explain the rationale of the same, the ministry has told Parliament.
As many as 296 mobile apps have been blocked by the government since 2014 in the interest of the country s sovereignty, security, and public order, Union minister Sanjay Dhotre told Rajya Sabha on Thursday. A total of 296 mobile applications have been blocked by government since 2014, under the provisions of section 69A of IT Act 2000 and its rules. in the interest of sovereignty & integrity of India, security of the State and public order, Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, said in a written reply. The minister also said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) the requesting agency for blocking of these apps under section 69A of the IT Act had received several reports about misuse of some Chinese mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms .
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 2
India has taken the first steps towards digitisation of citizens’ health records with 6.30 lakh digital health IDs generated so far.
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