Surabhi Agarwal reports: India may draft a completely new privacy bill, people directly aware of the matter told ET, by putting aside the current version of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 that has been in the making for nearly five years and does not comprehensively address the requirements of the country’s changing technology landscape,…
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Jordanian officials want investigation into hacking of their cellphones
Daoud Kuttab reports: A senior Jordanian official has called on his government to create a committee to investigate hacking that has affected the cellphones of nearly 200 Jordanian activists, journalists, human rights defenders, and even government officials. Senator Mustafa Hamarneh, a member of Jordan’s elite upper house – often called the King’s Council because its members are…
Singapore: MCI responds to unauthorised sales of personal data over the past five years
Andy Leck, Lim Ren, and Arwen Berry write; In brief On 10 January 2022, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) responded to a parliamentary question relating to the number of cases of unauthorised sales of consumers’ personal data that have been investigated over the last five years, and how many of those cases…
Feds declined offer from privacy commissioner for advice on collection of phone data
Marie Woolf reports: The federal privacy commissioner says his offer to advise the government on the implications of collecting data from millions of mobile phones during the COVID-19 pandemic was rebuffed. Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee this week that he offered to review how the data was being anonymized, but the government…