The Union government has discontinued Aarogya Setu’s data access and sharing protocol, as it seeks to convert the contact tracing app into a ‘national health app’. Privacy activists, however, have raised concerns over the security of the personal data which has been collected since April 2020, even as new users download the app every day. … Read more
The Union government has discontinued Aarogya Setu’s data access and sharing protocol, as it seeks to convert the contact tracing app into a ‘national health app’. Privacy activists, however, have raised concerns over the security of the personal data which has been collected since April 2020, even as new users download the app every day. … Read more
Washington: For many women seeking an abortion in the Philippines, an outright ban means the internet is their only source of help. But since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, activists fear some could be too scared to type in “abortion”. Clandestine terminations are common in the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines, where women … Read more
Washington: About 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sending sensitive patient data to Facebook, now known as Meta, via a tracking tool installed on their websites, according to a media report. Whenever a person schedules a doctor’s appointment, the tracker called the Meta Pixel sends Facebook data — which includes details … Read more
May 20, 2022 – If Roe v. Wade is overturned, can criminal prosecutors or tech companies use smartphone data against someone? Now that the future of U.S. abortion laws hangs in the balance, many women are questioning the degree of caution needed to keep their cyber activity confidential – especially period and fertility tracking apps, … Read more
Apple on Wednesday kicked off a new ad campaign to promote its key privacy features and eventually convince people to pick an iPhone over the competition. Themed ‘Data Auction’ where an auctioneer is seen selling data of a user, the ad highlights the fact that how people nowadays are losing their personal data at different … Read more
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, mHealth apps became the select delivery channel for contact tracing and symptom monitoring. By Sanjay Kumar Currently, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), under the Drugs & Cosmetics (D&C) Act, 1940 and Medical Device Rules (MDR), is not regulating medical mobile apps that could be brought within the purview of … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Kiran Raju, Founder and CEO, Grene Robotics, to know more about the advent of robots in healthcare and how responsive healthcare is taking shape. Robots in HealthcareI think today the mix of autonomy and robots is going to change every industry, and Covid has accelerated that, I would say, … Read more
Apple has officially unveiled iOS 15, and like many recent rumours and leaks suggested, several far-reaching improvements have come to iMessage and FaceTime. There’s also new system-wide emphasis on sharing and communication, as well as even more privacy-related features, and new ways to leverage on-device intelligence. iOS 15 will roll out to iPhone 6s and later … Read more
Lowering data privacy protection by dominant entities can be construed as abuse of dominant position, according to Competition Commission of India () chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta. “Lowering of privacy protection by dominant enterprises could be construed to be an abuse of dominant position and therefore fall within the ambit of antitrust as low privacy standards … Read more