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OpenAI API customer details, including user IDs, exposed in Mixpanel data breach

November 28, 2025 8:58 am

OpenAI has said it is in the process of notifying impacted organisations, admins, and users directly about the data breach.

Over 18 lakh users of society management app Adda exposed in alleged data breach: Report

November 27, 2025 5:56 pm

The ‘stolen’ data includes owner IDs as well as users’ first and last names, phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords.

Jawhar Sircar, William Dalrymple, WhatsApp history,

WhatsApp privacy risk? How researchers scraped data, profile pics from crores of Indian users

November 20, 2025 5:49 pm

The researchers’ findings come just days after the notification of the DPDP rules that aim to operationalise India's personal data protection law.

The central government had notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 on November 13.

Digital Personal Data Protection rules notified: Key opportunities and challenges ahead

November 17, 2025 8:17 pm

Experts believe that the compliance requirements envisaged under the data protection laws will lead to a spike in legal and compliance costs for companies.

Advocate Duggal said that the tech giants like Google and Meta will now have to spend more on proactive compliance so that they can try to protect themselves from exposure to statutory fines.

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025: Cyberlaw expert Pavan Duggal breaks down India’s new data privacy framework

November 17, 2025 4:43 pm

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025: Advocate Duggal said that the personal data protection law is one of the unique legislations in Indian history, providing with unprecedented statutory fines of Rs. 250 crore per contravention.

Centre notifies data protection rules, paves way for India’s first privacy law

November 15, 2025 1:39 am

While the law is now operational, only parts of it are currently in force, as some of the most important protections available to citizens under the law will take longer – between twelve to eighteen months – to be implemented.

OpenAI has said that the built-in agent cannot run code in the browser, download files, or install extensions.

ChatGPT Atlas raises security concerns: How safe are AI web browsers?

October 31, 2025 1:38 pm

ChatGPT Atlas can remember your searches, suggest actions, and even complete tasks on your behalf. But how safe is your data? Can you opt-out of these features? What new privacy and security risks come with AI-driven browsing?

(left to right) Manish Prasad, President and MD, SAP India Subcontinent; Oliver Beck, Chief Technology Officer, SAP Sovereign Cloud; and Martin Merz, President of Sovereign Cloud.

SAP launches Sovereign Cloud in India to enable local data storage, boost AI development

September 20, 2025 9:33 am

Amid the global push for AI and digital sovereignty, major tech players are investing heavily in sovereign cloud initiatives that keep user data within the country or region in compliance with local laws.

Claude Opus 4.1 is Anthropic’s most advanced coding model to date. (Image: Anthropic)

Anthropic to train its AI models on your chats from September: Here’s how to stop it

September 02, 2025 12:49 pm

Starting September 28, most Claude user accounts will be opted in by default to share their chat transcripts for AI training.

Airtel is giving away one year of Perplexity Pro subscription to its customers in India.

Perplexity’s AI browser Comet vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, researchers warn

August 26, 2025 9:56 am

The findings come at a time when AI-centric browsers like Perplexity’s Comet are gaining traction due to a fundamental shift in users’ search behaviour.