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WhatsApp and Its Privacy Policy in India

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  In today’s ever-changing world where the age-old conventional technology has been defenestrated every day, data proved to be the most important thing and usually termed as “oil” or “air” of our society. In celebrated case Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) vs. Union of India, 2017, the right of privacy has been accepted by Hon’ble Supreme Court of India as one of our fundamental right and observed privacy as a part of right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the constitution of India. So, privacy is a fundamental right protected under the Indian constitution. As per the report of Press Information Bureau Government of India, India has approximately 53 Crore WhatsApp users. We Indian have whole-heartedly welcome end-to-end encryption providing instant messenger WhatsApp, especially for its promised privacy system. WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014 and in 2016 WhatsApp introduced its changed Privacy policy and challenging the same a case was filed before the Hon’b...

General Data Protection Regulation : Is India Ready ? [Part — I]

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  DATA AND THE MODERN ERA: • In today’s ever-changing world where the age-old conventional technology has been defenestrated every day, data proved to be the most important thing and usually termed as “oil” or “air” of our society. The avalanche of data or should I say Big data are the only business interest for the big entities of our complex society. It is ex-facie clear that our data is the centre of attraction for those entities. Some invincible data brokers qua data-analytics without our knowledge are collecting, packaging and selling our personal private data online and offline. Even the different e-commerce and social site companies are collecting, storing and tracking our data. Our life is converted into data package where we are only products. Our every purchase, every journey, every likes and dislikes, hobbies, thinking and thus every part of our life are digitised, tracked and logged. Today all around we can find a data war where unknown and invisible data brokers ...