data privacy
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Supreme Court Restricts India’s Colossal Biometric Database
India’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the country’s sweeping biometric database does not violate privacy rights. But the panel of five judges did decide to place restrictions on the program, according to The Times of India.
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Snapchat Files All-Caps DMCA Takedown After The Source Code It Leaked Hit Github
A portion of Snapchat’s source code was leaked and hosted on the code repository platform GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft) before a copyright takedown request from Snap led the company to remove the offending leak.
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Some Senators Want To Know If Smart TVs Are Spying On People
A visitor looks at a display of Smart TV televisions at the Thomson stand at the IFA 2011 consumer electonics and appliances trade fair on the first day of the fair’s official opening on September 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Two US senators have some suspicions about smart TVs, and they’re asking the Federal Trade…
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Facebook Discloses More Data Sharing Partnerships As The Hits Just Keep Coming
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC It’s a day of the week, so that means it’s time for more revelations about Facebook’s sharing habits that it hadn’t previously revealed…