In India the absence of a legal framework for data protection was a major concern for many years. Due to pressing demands and the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment in Justice K.S Puttaswamy v. Union of India, in which the court held that right to privacy is a fundamental right, a draft legislation on data protection was submitted by a committee of experts.
Headed by former Supreme Court judge B.N. Srikrishna, the committee of experts submitted a 176-page report, titled “A Free and Fair Digital Economy: Protecting Privacy, Empowering Indians”, and a 62-page draft Bill, titled The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018. The draft Bill will become law after public comments are noted and Parliament clears it.
Renowned Cyber Lawyer Neeraj Aarora has in detail explained the whole Bill:-
Domino’s India Data Leak of 18 Cr Orders comes back to the fore; Customer Location, Mobile Numbers Exposed
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May 25, 2021
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Last month, data relating to over 18 crore Domino's India orders surfaced on the dark web; now, the same database has been made public by a hacker or hacking gang. The information has been posted on the dark web as a searchable server, enabling hackers to detect and map visitors to their previous location.A threat actor in the matter was accused of stealing 13 TB of data from Domino's India last month, including the personal details of 250 employees from different divisions and customer...
Shopify confirms Data Breach, states two rogue employees have stolen at least 100 merchants’ customer data
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Sep 27, 2020
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Shopify- the Ottawa based Canadian multinational e-commerce giant informed the company’s privacy commissioner about the recent data breach and also added that the breach was carried out by two "rogue" employees.While confirming the data breach, Shopify informed that two rogue employees which were a part of the Company’s customer support team stole at least 100 merchants’ customer data. Since the breach did not occur due to any technical glitch, the data of most merchants was safe.The...
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