Privacy Debate

WhatsApp's big statement in the Delhi High Court that breaking message encryption would be the end of the platform in India has sparked a debate on the balance between right to privacy and the government's need to ensure national security.

YouTube's case in the US Supreme Court, that is set to be decided in the coming months, could also influence the debate over whether firms developing AI chatbots should be protected from legal claims like defamation or privacy violations. The US Supreme Court is set to decide in June whether YouTube can be sued over its recommendations to users, an...

A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress said that her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son's frozen sperm and is in fact her granddaughter, reigniting a debate over the bioethics of surrogacy and children's right to privacy in Spain.

The operator of the arena is under fire for using the software to identify and eject certain lawyers from events at the venue.

After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world's largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board.

India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...

Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.

Apple CEO Tim Cook took aim at proposed European rules aimed at curbing the power of US tech giants, saying they could pose security and privacy risks to iPhone handsets.

Microsoft president Brad Smith on Tuesday said Europe was the global leader on setting rules for big tech, two years after the EU implemented the GDPR, its landmark data privacy law.

As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users’ privacy. The debate is especially urgent in Europe, which has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the world, with nearly 140,000 people killed by COVID-19.

Aarogya Setu, the contact-tracing app the government has been pushing in its fight against coronavirus, may be made mandatory for all citizens amid concerns expressed by experts about privacy and surveillance. In discussions to renew its push for more and more users, the government is debating whether it can make the app a must.

The European Union has scrapped the possibility of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces, according to the latest proposals seen by Reuters.

From whether governments should use facial recognition for surveillance to what data Internet giants should be allowed to collect, 2019 was marked by a heated global debate around privacy and technology.

Top government officers of at least three ministries were forced to wait for over two hours at the Parliament Annexe building on Wednesday, even as Lok Sabha members entered into a fierce argument over referring the recent WhatsApp snooping controversy to the standing committee on citizens' data security and privacy.

IBM weighed in Tuesday on the policy debate over facial recognition technology, arguing against an outright ban but calling for "precision regulation" to protect privacy and civil liberties.

WhatsApp's big statement in the Delhi High Court that breaking message encryption would be the end of the platform in India has sparked a debate on the balance between right to privacy and the government's need to ensure national security.

YouTube's case in the US Supreme Court, that is set to be decided in the coming months, could also influence the debate over whether firms developing AI chatbots should be protected from legal claims like defamation or privacy violations. The US Supreme Court is set to decide in June whether YouTube can be sued over its recommendations to users, an...

A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress said that her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son's frozen sperm and is in fact her granddaughter, reigniting a debate over the bioethics of surrogacy and children's right to privacy in Spain.

The operator of the arena is under fire for using the software to identify and eject certain lawyers from events at the venue.

After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world's largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board.

India’s privacy debate has seen major changes in the last few years. The government has recently scraped the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework”. This may bring little cheer to Big Tech if the replacement turns out to be even more draconian. Twitter and Meta’s WhatsApp have already...

Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.

Apple CEO Tim Cook took aim at proposed European rules aimed at curbing the power of US tech giants, saying they could pose security and privacy risks to iPhone handsets.

Microsoft president Brad Smith on Tuesday said Europe was the global leader on setting rules for big tech, two years after the EU implemented the GDPR, its landmark data privacy law.

As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users’ privacy. The debate is especially urgent in Europe, which has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the world, with nearly 140,000 people killed by COVID-19.

Aarogya Setu, the contact-tracing app the government has been pushing in its fight against coronavirus, may be made mandatory for all citizens amid concerns expressed by experts about privacy and surveillance. In discussions to renew its push for more and more users, the government is debating whether it can make the app a must.

The European Union has scrapped the possibility of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces, according to the latest proposals seen by Reuters.

From whether governments should use facial recognition for surveillance to what data Internet giants should be allowed to collect, 2019 was marked by a heated global debate around privacy and technology.

Top government officers of at least three ministries were forced to wait for over two hours at the Parliament Annexe building on Wednesday, even as Lok Sabha members entered into a fierce argument over referring the recent WhatsApp snooping controversy to the standing committee on citizens' data security and privacy.

IBM weighed in Tuesday on the policy debate over facial recognition technology, arguing against an outright ban but calling for "precision regulation" to protect privacy and civil liberties.