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Understanding India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023

India's new Data Protection Bill, my take of it The security of private information has risen to the forefront of public debate in this age of rapid technical development and digital innovation. The introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 in the Indian Parliament marks the beginning of a new era in the country's efforts to protect its citizens' private information. This extensive piece of law is an attempt to strike a balance between two competing interests: using data processing to foster innovation and protecting people's privacy. As we explore the bill's main points and analyze it critically, we learn about its possible consequences and the problems it tries to solve. Highlights of the Data Protection Bill 2023 - India India's quest of a strong data protection framework has reached a major milestone with the introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023. The Bill covers a lot of ground, as it applies to both online and ...

WhatsApp own Status message, is this the future plan to monetize

WhatsApp Own WhatsApp Status 2021 seems to be interesting where we see Whatsapp putting out own status message about their privacy policy to all the users of Whatsapp.  Look how Indian users curiosity and concern been taken very seriously by WhatsApp management. Is this all good and WhatsApp has been repeatedly saying that they don't use the user data or store user data, however what they are not saying is how they plan to use their tool WhatsApp to Monetize.  Interesting for all other users status we have the option to mute them, however for WhatsApp we do not have it. Is the option of putting the status message on WhatsApp users could have been covered in the terms and condition under page xx and sentence yy and line zz This is a prime example and the power of Whatsapp in terms of what they can do.  Lets imagine if a company get an advertising agreement with Whatsapp wherein they will put the status message on all the users about a program, event or a promotion....

Whatsapp crossing its privacy limits?

New Privacy Terms of WhatsApp - Make or Break WhatsApp's new privacy rules are being a debate on the public and social media. So what does it mean for the users of is Whatsapp? Should Whatsapp users shift to Signal or Telegram? So let's imagine what is going to happen now after the new privacy law comes into effect?  When you share some data on WhatsApp, User data can be shared with Facebook and Facebook companies.  Collected data may be used for building your digital model or your social identity. Whatsapp a Facebook product is now going to do very close to matching advertising and the possibilities are limitless. The timing of this policy change is wonderful as at the lockdown time, there are a lot of businesses, schools have started using WhatsApp as one of the mediums to run their businesses and conduct classes and now moving out would be a great challenge. This also means the business, school the ecosystem built around it are hugely dependent on Whatsapp. To be honest the...