Apple on Wednesday launched a new campaign to highlight the importance of health data privacy globally, including in India, as millions of people now monitor their health data online via plethora of smart devices.
Google engineers and other experts, many based in Asia-Pacific, have also developed Security Checkup and Privacy Checkup tools, which people can use to strengthen their security and privacy settings.
People increasingly rely on data flows for everything from online shopping, travel, and shipping, to office collaboration, customer management, and security operations.
With users connecting from outside the corporate walls, secure access is the top cybersecurity challenge.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, who holds the Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications portfolios, was delivering the Late Thakur Prasad Centenary Memorial Lecture on 'Data Privacy, Data Security and Data Sovereignty'.
Despite calling it a voluntary decision to install the app, government has been pushing to make the app mandatory in various ways.
As discussions on cyber snooping continued in Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh questioned the government on who was spied upon using the Israeli spyware software Pegasus.
Apple CEO Tim Cook often refers to privacy as a fundamental human right and the company aims to minimise customer data collection.
Microsoft has added new features to "Microsoft 365" that include controls to automatically expire or revoke access to encrypted emails and data investigation capabilities.
While today might be the official Data Privacy Day, remember its Data Privacy Day tomorrow, the day after and the day after that. It’s like Quit Smoking Day – you take it on for the rest of your digital life.
