Catalin Cimpanu writes: The Russian government has submitted a bill to the Duma (the Russian Parliament) that would grant the military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies the power to edit, anonymize, or delete the personal data of certain groups of people—presumably their own employees. At first reading, the proposed law appears to allow these agencies to freely…
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India’s Lower House of Parliament Approves Data Privacy Bill
Sankalp Phartiyal reports: India’s lower house of parliament Monday approved a privacy bill that seeks to ease data storage, processing and transfer norms for BigTech companies as well as Indian firms seeking growth abroad. The proposed legislation, which has been years in the making, allows companies to export data to any country except those New…
India’s Data Protection Bill 2023: Everything we need to know
Rakesh Kumar reports: The government introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023, on Thursday to ‘safeguard’ citizens’ data. This is the third version of the bill, the work on which has been going on since 2017. It was the year when the apex court of the country ruled that privacy is a fundamental right…
Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data
Zack Whittaker reports: Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims’ phones. In a notice on its website in both English and Polish, LetMeSpy confirmed the “permanent shutdown” of the…