India Scraps Data Privacy Bill - The New York Times
A number of lawyers and experts say that measures to safeguard citizens online are badly needed, but the bill was criticized by both privacy advocates and tech companies.
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A number of lawyers and experts say that measures to safeguard citizens online are badly needed, but the bill was criticized by both privacy advocates and tech companies.
These controls, which are buried inside products from Apple, Google, Meta and others, make us share more data than we need to.
The breach is “a big black eye” for the Chinese security apparatus, one expert says, exposing the risk of the state’s vast effort to amass citizens’ personal data.
For about $200,000, an unidentified person or group is offering what is described as data on a billion Chinese citizens. A sampling seemed to show the data to be genuine.
“We know we are among the most scrutinized platforms from a security standpoint,” the video app’s chief executive wrote.