US warned Nevada not to use Chinese COVID tests from UAE

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U.S. diplomats and security officials privately warned the state of Nevada not to use Chinese-made coronavirus test kits donated by the United Arab Emirates over concerns about patient privacy, test accuracy and Chinese government involvement, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. The documents illustrate how the U.S. government actively, if quietly, tried to keep … Read more

Eight organizations and 145 individuals write to govt on concerns on Aarogya Setu app – ET HealthWorld

eight organizations and 145 individuals write to govt on concerns on aarogya setu app

BENGALURU: Eight organizations and 145 individuals have written to the Ministry of Health and Family, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the IT Standing Committee raising serious technical, legal, ethical, and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu and other apps introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. This joint statement was drafted by the Forum for Medical Ethics … Read more

ETIG analysis: How Covid has exposed India’s data-centric inadequacies

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For a country where people often get reduced to statistics given the humongous population, India hardly has any effective data measurement tools that can be relied upon and swung into action amidst a pandemic, as the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has exposed. The Indian administration doesn’t have data on how many migrant workers lost their lives … Read more

Government’s move to ban apps will hurt Xiaomi India revenue: Analysts

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NEW DELHI: The government’s recent move to ban Xiaomi’s popular web browser, the ‘Mi Browser Pro’ along with the previously banned socializing platform ‘Mi Community’ could severely hurt the Chinese phonemaker’s revenue opportunity from value added services (VAS) worth millions of dollars, analysts say. “Having built a user base of 90 million users and captured … Read more

MNCs to gain tremendously from sharing of non-personal data: Kris Gopalakrishnan

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Gopalakrishnan, however, said that there are no contradictions between the recommendations, as the context in which they had discussed sharing of algorithmic data was different. SynopsisAn authority which will be set-up to regulate NPD will decide what constitutes a fair or an unfair request for data from a competing company, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said … Read more

Data of one country should not become surreptitious property of another country: Ravi Shankar Prasad

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New Delhi: IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday called for transparency in data usage and said data of a country should not be used by another country as its surreptitious property. He said a true digital world can only survive in democracy, and there is a need for more transparent system. “The … Read more