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Privacy in Doldrums-Adapting to the Information Age

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the Indian Bar Association (IBA) organized a conference in Bangalore on 23rd September 2015 and discussed several aspects related to Privacy in the emerging Digital India. Eminent speakers from the industry participated … Continue reading

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Digital India and Bugle Call for Activating the Cyber Law Eco System

In 1996, when E Commerce was in its nascent stage, UNCITRAL recognized the need for providing a legal backing to E Commerce and drafted the model law on E Commerce to provide assurance to international business transactions. To accomplish this, … Continue reading

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Digi Locker Beta Release

Government has opened the beta version of the Digital Locker operated by CDAC and UIDAI which provides 10MB free storage space for every Aadhar number holder. It envisages that members can upload their ID documents and share it with other Government … Continue reading

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Did RSA Compromise on its integrity?

The security community suffered a shock recently when it was realized that NSA had paid $10 million to push through a encryption technology promoted by the agency through a RSA product. It is understood that NSA promoted a Dual Elliptical … Continue reading

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Use of Aadhar for Cardholder authentication

It is reported that RBI is considering use of Aadhar as a second factor authentication for Credit Card transactions. Report in TOI here The cost of upgrading the card swipe mechanism at the merchants with a biometric capable instrument is … Continue reading

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Aadhar Nightmare continues

Ever since the Aadhar scheme was introduced, security specialists have been warning about the large scale problems that may be caused by loss of identity of individuals. The UIDAI authroities have been going ahead with spending of public money and … Continue reading

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