User data News

French security researcher Robert Baptiste has claimed Koo is leaking its users' personal data Baptiste found that the microblogging platform was exposing sensitive information of its users, such as email addresses, names, gender, and more The new Indian micro-blogging platform has gained some prominence after the govt warned Twitter to block some accounts related to farmers' protest

Fake URLs have come to fore promising users a way to run the banned Chinese app TikTok All of these links are fake and aim to steal user data as well as information The Narendra Modi government recently banned at least 59 popular Chinese Apps citing that they posed a threat to the internal security and hacked user data Researchers from Kaspersky have found that cybercriminals are sending users links to download malicious apps to their phones

Terming the existing data protection framework as inadequate, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in a set of recommendations to DoT said that companies should not use meta-data to identify users and should disclose any data breaches.

Facebook published a psychological study involving 700,000 persons in 2014 that sparked controversy about the company's ethics. 

A federal judge rejected Google Inc`s bid to dismiss a privacy lawsuit claiming it commingled user data across different products and disclosed that data to advertisers without permission.