‘Facebook users must make their profile as private as possible’
April 20, 2021
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Facebook users can strengthen their accounts’ privacy settings by making their profile as private as possible and refraining from giving private information in posts that are accessible to everyone, said experts.
This is in the wake of the country’s cyber security agency CERT-In advising Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings following a recent global data scraping incident on the social-media platform which affected lakhs of Indians.
“It is important for users of social-media applications to use the privacy settings available to secure their communications by restricting access. Publicly available data often poses a risk and could be used by cyber criminals for social engineering. Users should make sure that posts that are accessible for everyone do not have private information that can be misused by cyber criminals,” Prasanth Sugathan, legal director, SFLC.in, to
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Pavan Duggal, a cyberlaw expert, told DW that there will be more legal challenges. I think the government is trying to bite off more than it can chew. Surely there will be more legal challenges when the rules have the effect of surpassing what the IT Act is trying to regulate, he said.
LiveLaw, a legal news website, has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court, which last week said no coercive action should be taken against the website for non-compliance.
The LiveLaw petition says the government s move imposes a disproportionately onerous set of administrative regulations upon digital news media, which will make it virtually impossible for small or medium-sized publishers to function.
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Facial recognition technologies installed in at least a dozen government-funded schools in Delhi are an “overreach” by Indian authorities and an invasion of children’s privacy, digital rights advocates said on March 2.
The move to introduce facial recognition technology follows a 2019 decision by the Delhi city government to mount closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in more than 700 public schools to ensure the safety of students.
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