The Data Protection Bill has been in the pipeline for a couple of years and it is a mystery when it will become an Act. Justice BN Srikrishna had led the committee that drafted the Personal Data Protection Bill.
A joint committee of Parliament on the issue of protection of data and its privacy has issued summons to social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.
Whatsapp has long been offering end-to-end encryption, where the text or file transferred between two people will remain only with the sender and the receiver.
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Central Government on a plea seeking ban on the use of ‘Zoom App’ for official and personal use until a legislation is made and to carry out an exhaustive technical study into the security and privacy risks of use of ‘Zoom App’.