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FirstPost 03.06.2020 (Reuters) - Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in "private" mode. The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion (4 billion pounds), accusing the Alphabet Inc  unit of collecting information about what people view online and where they do their browsing, despite using what Google calls Incognito mode. Google had no immediate comment. The complaint said Google surreptitiously collects data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads. This helps the Mountain View, California-based company learn details about users' friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the "most intimate and potentially embarrassing things" they searc...

The Print Rukmini S March 23, 2020 After the   largest   single-day increase in the number of novel coronavirus cases in India, it has never been clearer that the pandemic is upon us and the next few weeks are going to throw up a scenario that many still find hard to imagine. From the data we have, here’s a look at the near future, and what the Narendra Modi government needs to do. India is hitting a period of exponential growth It took India forty days to  reach   the first 50 cases, five more days to reach 100 cases, three more days to reach 150 cases and then just  two   more days to reach 200 cases. From here on, the juggernaut is going to roll fast. The number of confirmed cases in India is now doubling in five days or less, down from six days earlier this month. This puts India in line with trajectories of countries across the world — in the United States, cases are now  doubling every two days . Italy discovered its first...

Hindustan Tmes February 28, 2020 Indians consume over 11GB data per month: Report Cheap data plans, affordable handsets, increasing popularity of video services and 4G networks have helped average data consumption per user in India to grow to over 11 GB a month, telecom gear maker Nokia said on Thursday. Nokia - in its annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index (MBiT) report - said the overall data traffic in India increased by 47 per cent in 2019, driven by continued 4G consumption. 4G data constitute 96% of the total data traffic consumed across the country, while 3G data traffic registered its highest ever decline of 30%, it added. “The average monthly data usage per user surpassed 11GB in December growing 16% annually due to increase in upgradation of 4G network, low data prices, affordable smartphones, and the ever-increasing popularity of videos,” Nokia India Chief Marketing Officer Amit Marwah told reporters here. He added that data consumption in...

The Indian Express February 27, 2020 Food data raises alert: Indians are consuming less pulses and milk Is there stagnation in demand for pulses, milk and other protein-rich foods in India? The National Statistical Office (NSO) withheld its household consumption expenditure survey report for 2017-18 but alternative data sources do suggest a slowdown — at least in respect of the ubiquitous dal and doodh. At a global Pulses Conclave held earlier this month in Pune, the overwhelming concern expressed by participants was: Why are we not eating enough pulses? One of the presentations at the event was a detailed analysis of the estimated consumption of individual pulses — chana (chickpea), yellow peas, masur (red lentil), arhar (pigeon-pea), moong (green gram) and urad (black gram) — based on year-wise opening stocks plus domestic production and imports, and deducting exports, diversion towards seed and feed, and closing stocks. The aggregate picture that emerged was...

Gatestone Institute International Policy Council November 30, 2019 Published By: Gordon C. Chang On January 1, China's  Cryptography Law  becomes effective. The legislation follows the December 1 implementation of the Multi-Level Protection Scheme 2.0, issued under the authority of the 2016 Cybersecurity Law. Together, these measures show Beijing's absolute determination to seize from foreign companies all their communications, data, and other information stored in electronic form in China. President Trump should use his emergency powers to prohibit American companies from complying with the new rules or from storing data in China. After all these "cybersecurity" rules are in place, no foreign company may encrypt data so that it cannot be read by the Chinese central government and the Communist Party of China. In other words, businesses will be required to turn over encryption keys. Companies will also be prohibited from employing virtual private net...

Naavi.Org 98410spice October 10, 2019 This is in continuation of our discussion on the Theory of Data to explain “What Data is” for different communities like the technologists, lawyers and business manager. In this direction we have stated that there are three hypotheses that we want to explore and the first of such hypothesis was the thought that “Data is a congregation of fundamental data particles which come together to form a stable in a meaningful pattern for a software/hardware to enable a human being to make a meaning out of the pattern.” If we take an expression ’10’ and ask several people to read it as ‘data’, then perhaps most of them will read it as number ten”. But ask a “Binary Reader” who knows the language of “binary” like I and you know English, he will say ’10’ is decimal number two. [This is not much different from asking people to read “ Ceci est une pomme”. Not many would be able to understand this. But those who know French may understand this equiva...