According to a consultant for France's data protection authority, Apple should pay a hefty fine of 6 million euros

The chief adviser to the French data protection authority has recommended that Apple be fined 6 million euros ($6.3 million) for violating privacy rules, and such suggestions often carry a great deal of weight when it comes to the watchdog's ultimate decision. Francois Pellegrini, the authori...

Changes to the Protection Act Have an Impact on the Healthcare Sector

Before the modifications, there was no requirement under the PDPA for organisations to notify the PDPC and/or impacted persons when a data breach occurred, although the Personal Data Protection Commission encouraged organisations to do so voluntarily.

If the compromised personal data in...

Thailand will adopt Personal Data Protection by June

Thailand's Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) has stated that the Personal Data Protection Act will be implemented (PDPA). It was charged with creating a digital start-up and service provider account registration system. To increase the services available to digital firms in Thailand, di...

EUROPEAN UNION PLANS TO ASK TECH COMPANIES TO EXPLAIN WORKING OF THEIR ALGORITHMS UNDER NEW RULES

Highlights:

• The antitrust chief of the European Union has announced his plans for asking the technology companies for explaining how their algorithms work under the new rules
• The European Union have also asked the companies to pen their advertising to...

RAH INFOTECH PARTNERS WITH TRUSTIFI

HIGHLIGHTS

• RAH Infotech has found a new partner in Trustifi.
• Both partners are working to introduce enhanced e-mail security to India.

RAH Infotech, India’s leading technology distributor has forged a partnership with Las Vegas...

‘CONTACT TRACING’ BILL PROVISIONALLY APPROVED IN BELGIUM

HIGHLIGHTS

• A new law in Belgium allows the contact tracing of people who might be infected with coronavirus.
• The bill will allow consensus between various communities.

On Tuesday, 15 SEP 2020, the Health and Equal Opportunities Commi...

India will become ‘Orwellian State’ with personal data protection bill

On Wednesday, personal data protection bill was placed in the parliament. The committee for the same was led by Justice BN Srikrishna. The bill exempts many of the centre’s agencies from almost all the provisions, which, according to Srikrishna is “dangerous” and capable of turn...

Decoding the data protection bill 2019 in India

There has been a hype around the data protection bill in the country and globally as in his last visit the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had discussed this issue with the External Affairs Minister Mr. S. Jaishankar and also in is meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi where he was raising a p...

Personal Data Protection Bill in India – a way to curb “fake news”

Spreading fake news and unnecessarily trolling people will become a bit easier to curb with the government’s proposed new privacy bill. All social media platforms will have to provide an identity-verification option. You can call it a precedent-setting effort for handling fake data and news...