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India Stack is brilliant engineering. It's also the most extensive personal data infrastructure any democracy has ever built. Holding both of those thoughts at once is where the interesting conversation starts.
People say they care about phone privacy, then hand every app blanket access to their camera, microphone, contacts, and location. Here's how to actually check what your apps can see and shut down the ones that are overreaching.
You handed your Aadhaar, PAN, and address proof to a bank. Now what can they do with it? A flat-toned walkthrough of what's allowed, what's not, and the gray zones nobody clarifies.
India's cyber insurance market wants you to believe it's mature. It's not. Here's a dry-eyed look at what these policies actually cover, what they exclude, and why you'll probably still need one anyway.
February 2026 was a busy month for privacy in India — a fintech breach exposed 2.3 million records, the Data Protection Board got its full bench, and UPI fraud numbers got worse. Here's what happened.
Most people assume AI in India is still experimental, mostly chatbots and Netflix suggestions. They're wrong. Indian companies are already using machine learning to decide your loan eligibility, set the prices you see online, and scan your face in public. Here's what that means for your data.
India slaps a flat 30% tax on crypto gains with zero deductions, while exchanges hand over your KYC data on request. Here's a Q&A breakdown of what crypto privacy actually looks like in this country, where the tax math stands, and what you can (and can't) do about it.
What exactly does a Data Protection Officer do all day, and why are Indian companies suddenly willing to pay lakhs for someone to fill the role? The DPDPA has created a career that barely existed here three years ago. Here's what the job looks like, what it pays, and how to break in.
You probably spent 70,000 rupees or more on that iPhone. Yet most Indian users haven't touched half the privacy settings buried inside iOS. Here's a no-nonsense walkthrough of every toggle that matters, from App Tracking Transparency to Lockdown Mode.
A single tap on a fake payment link cost a Chennai shopkeeper his entire month's earnings. UPI phishing scams are bleeding Indian wallets dry through bogus SMS blasts, spoofed Google Ads, and WhatsApp traps. Here's how to spot them before your money vanishes.
Most Indian startups are already violating the DPDPA and don't even know it. The consent banners are wrong, the data maps don't exist, and the clock is ticking toward penalties that could shut a company down.
A Pune man lost Rs 16 lakh in 47 minutes. His phone just stopped working. That's how SIM swap fraud begins -- silent, fast, and devastating. Here's what happened, and what you should know before it happens to you.
India calls itself the world's largest democracy and simultaneously runs one of the most expansive social media monitoring operations on the planet. Here's what that actually looks like on the ground, and what it means for every Indian who posts, shares, or simply scrolls.
Most online banking security advice is useless. Here's what actually happens when Indian bank customers get defrauded, what the attacks really look like, and the specific steps that would have prevented each one. Including the RBI rule that could save you lakhs if you act within 3 days.
India's cyber incident response agency wields enormous power over how companies report breaches, store logs, and cooperate with investigations — yet most citizens have never heard of it. Here's what CERT-In actually does, where it falls short, and why its 2022 directives changed the rules for everyone.
That six-digit code your bank texts you? It travels through a telecom system built in the 1970s. SIM swaps, SS7 holes, and plain old trickery make SMS OTP a shaky second factor -- here is what actually works better.
I deleted my Flipkart app for a month. When I reinstalled it, the app already knew what I'd been browsing on Myntra. Here's the uncomfortable truth about how Indian tech companies follow you across the internet.
India slashed its breach reporting window from 24 hours to 6. That's just one piece of the 2026 cybersecurity guidelines -- quarterly CII audits, AI governance rules, and a tiered compliance system round out the rest.
Those cookie pop-ups aren't just a European thing anymore. India's DPDP Act and IT Act rules now shape what websites must do about cookies — and most sites are getting it wrong.
Fourteen billion UPI transactions a month and people are still entering their PIN to 'receive' money. Here's what nobody bothers to explain about collect request scams, fake helplines, QR code tricks, and SIM swaps — plus what actually works when you've already been hit.
Everyone tells you to check if your data's been leaked. I ignored that advice for three years -- until a loan showed up on my CIBIL report that I never applied for, traced back to a telecom breach I could've caught in five minutes.
So I was chatting with a friend about why his Aadhaar got misused, and it hit me -- most of us in India still don't get why our data matters until something goes wrong.
India's DPDP Act took over six years and four drafts to become law — here's what it actually says, who it hits hardest, and why most people I've talked to still don't know their rights under it.
