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IANS- In a sensational revelation, an investigation on Monday claimed that the popular Avast antivirus — installed on nearly 435 millions Windows, Mac and mobile devices globally — harvested users’ data via browser plugins and then sold it to third parties, including Microsoft and Google. The joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag that relied on […]
IANS- The Indian Data Protection bill 2019 which aims to help consumers exercise their privacy rights needs a proper structural framework else personal data of millions of users in the country will be at stake, leading industry experts said on Monday. As the world observes Data Privacy Day on January 28, experts and leading industry […]
indica News Bureau- Vinod Khosla, the Silicon Valley billionaire and co-founder of Sun Microsystems who has been in the news for his long-running battle to restrict public access to Martins beach has now sued San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos for violating Khos;a’s right to equal protection under the law. Martins Beach is surrounded […]
indica News Bureau- The year 2020 will usher in new restrictions on H-1B visa for foreign students and employees seeking jobs in the US. The new rules are likely to decrease the number of H-1B visas in the US as the employers will be required to participate in electronic registration by paying a $10 fee […]
indica News Bureau- Data privacy must be seen as a human right that needs to be protected and have full transparency, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on January 23 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Summit 2020. Nadella also favored a debate on CEO pay and all kinds of remuneration, including return on […]
indica News Bureau- The United States and India, world’s two largest economies, impact the global IT and Services industry and this manifested through the strong and growing trade and other relations between the two nations, said US Consul General in Hyderabad Joel Reifman. “The country is keen growing the trade relation going ahead.” he added. […]
indica News Bureau- Indian-American pharmaceutical company founder was awarded a sentence for five and a half years in prison by Boston’s federal court on January 24 for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis. The founder John Kapoor, 76 and is a billionaire who deployed the scheme to […]
IANS- Smartphones have made voting easier, as King County in the US state of Washington, where Seattle is located, implements mobile voting in their board of supervisors election. This is the first-time mobile voting is available to all eligible registered voters. Previous pilots in other jurisdictions were limited to overseas and military voters and/or voters […]
IANS- Leading biotechnology company Biocon on Thursday reported a net profit of Rs 203 crore for the third quarter (October-December) of fiscal 2019-20, declining by 7 per cent compared to Rs 217 crore in the same quarter last year. In a regulatory filing, Biocon said the net profit was impacted by higher research and development […]
IANS- IT major IBM has released a regulatory framework for organisations involved in developing or using Artificial Intelligence based on accountability, transparency, fairness and security. These IBM recommendations come as the new European Commission has indicated that it will legislate on AI within the first 100 days of 2020 and the White House has released […]
