Apple’s new privacy labels that indicate what sort of personal data apps are accessing are a boon for consumer privacy, but the system might not be working as intended.
As tensions heighten again in the disputed border territories of the Himalayas, India has banned 118 Chinese apps in the name of national security; Tencent games, Baidu and Alipay are among them.
Regardless of the motivation of the Delhi police, the handover of donor payment data has put India's lack of a national data privacy law and its speech laws in the spotlight.
Within a year, India could have the world’s largest facial recognition system in place. But there is a very real risk that such a system could transform India into the world’s largest surveillance state.
Hackers are leaking sensitive personal - (PII) and protected health information (PHI) from India’s top health insurance company, Star Health and Allied Insurance, via Telegram chatbots.
Indian government subjects phone makers to cyber security standards and are required to report their hardware, software and network security measures by August 28th.
The secret order, issued in late November, would have made India’s security app a mandatory inclusion on all new devices from smartphone makers within 90 days. Smartphone makers would have also been required to push it to older devices that are still supported via a security update.
An Indonesia data protection law that has been in development since 2016 includes some of the harshest penalties yet seen in national data privacy regulations, along with a right to compensation for data breaches.
Indonesia’s tax agency, the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP), has suffered a data breach impacting 6 million people, including President Widodo, his family, and cabinet members.
In total, the cyber attack on Indonesia’s national data center impacted about 200 government agencies. Travel and immigration saw the most dramatic impacts, but also received priority attention and have largely been restored at this point.
