Delhi: The Government proposes to bring out a legislation that will provide protection to individuals in case their privacy is breached through unlawful means. For the purpose it is working on ‘Right to Privacy’ Bill. The drafting of the legislation is at a very preliminary stage and details of the legislation are yet to be finalized.

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri V.Narayanasamy in written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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Delih: Shri Milind Deora, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology today informed Lok Sabha in written reply to a question that complaints have been received against some of the telecom operators including Reliance for overcharging and preventing the customers from porting.

New Delhi: Birlasoft, the global IT services arm of the multi-billion dollar C K Birla Group, today (16Aug 2011) announced its Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategy designed to help businesses become more agile, gain greater visibility into their data, and balance business risk and responsiveness. Since the law was published in 2010, Birlasoft has setup a domain led competency to carry out comprehensive research and thought leadership for organizations grappling to understand and respond to the law's still evolving technology requirements.

Delhi: The Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot today informed the Lok Sabha in written reply to a question that a total of 117 Government websites were defaced during the period January - June, 2011. All the affected organizations and departments were requested to provide web server logs of hacked websites for analysis and identifying nature and type of attack and vulnerabilities exploited by the hacker.

Delhi: News items had appeared in media on certain aspects of the Intermediaries Guidelines Rules, 2011 notified on 11.4.2011 under Information Technology Act, 2000. The media had projected that the rules violate the principle of freedom of expression and enable the government to regulate content.