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Of faith in gods and doubts in data
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Of faith in gods and doubts in data

The Hindu  

Tucked away in the vastness of the Gangetic plains, 90 kilometres northeast of Prayagraj, and roughly the same distance northwest of Varanasi in eastern Uttar Pradesh, lies Brahminpur, a hamlet, as the name suggests, of Brahmins. Originalism — of religious orthodoxy and constitutionalism — questions the deviation of political Hinduism from the standard of ‘dharma shastras’ and republican precepts, respectively. …

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Lawmakers pressure Biden administration to unveil the true number of migrants living in U.S. that experts estimate is at least 22 MILLION
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawmakers pressure Biden administration to unveil the true number of migrants living in U.S. that experts estimate is at least 22 MILLION

Daily Mail  

A group of 18 Republican lawmakers are demanding that President Joe Biden's administration release to the public how many illegal immigrants are living in the U.S. Studies spanning back to 2018 claim that as many as 22 million people are living in the U.S. without legal status, but other more recent estimates from 2021 say the number is closer to …

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Edu institutes must prioritise data privacy, security: Cyber experts
1 year, 5 months ago

Edu institutes must prioritise data privacy, security: Cyber experts

Hindustan Times  

Pune Educational institutions must prioritise data privacy and security and use technology to protect sensitive student data. Educational institutions must prioritise data privacy and security and use technology to protect sensitive student data. Educational institutions and other entities handling student data must obtain explicit consent from students or their guardians before collecting and processing their personal information. Information security researcher …

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Antarctica's sea-ice well below winter level, at 'mind-blowing' low: Experts
1 year, 6 months ago

Antarctica's sea-ice well below winter level, at 'mind-blowing' low: Experts

Live Mint  

Climate change and global warming have played a devastating role in maintaining the ecological balance of the planet earth. As per satellite data a new worrying benchmark for Antarctica shows that the sea-ice surrounding the region is well below any previous recorded winter level, reported BBC. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} "It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," BBC quoted …

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Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say
1 year, 8 months ago

Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say

The Hindu  

Elon Musk's move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company's new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said. Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and …

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NCRB Reports Says Kolkata Safest City in India, Experts Allege Underreporting, Suppression of Facts
2 years, 6 months ago

NCRB Reports Says Kolkata Safest City in India, Experts Allege Underreporting, Suppression of Facts

News 18  

Kolkata has topped the list of cities with the least number of cognisable offences per lakh of its population, making the metropolis the safest city of India in 2021, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau report. According to former Kolkata Police Joint CP Pallab Kanti Ghosh, the “hard work” of the dedicated police personnel was instrumental in this …

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Experts worry about how US will see next Covid-19 surge coming
3 years ago

Experts worry about how US will see next Covid-19 surge coming

India Today  

As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don’t bode well: —As more people take rapid COVID-19 tests at home, fewer people …

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Data Protection Bill Needs to Be Cleared Soon as Data Theft Has Become a Common Crime, Says CDS Rawat
3 years, 4 months ago

Data Protection Bill Needs to Be Cleared Soon as Data Theft Has Become a Common Crime, Says CDS Rawat

News 18  

Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday said the Data Protection Bill, tabled in 2019 in Parliament, needs to get cleared at the earliest as data theft has become a common crime in the virtual world. Rawat, while inaugurating the 14th edition of 'c0c0n', an annual Hacking and Cyber Security Briefing, organised by Kerala Police, said there was …

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Red-list Turkey should go amber, say data experts
3 years, 6 months ago

Red-list Turkey should go amber, say data experts

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sixteen weeks after the UK government placed Turkey on the “red list,” requiring arrivals to go …

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Coronavirus: Official data on England’s vaccine rollout is ‘not good enough’, experts warn
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus: Official data on England’s vaccine rollout is ‘not good enough’, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Data from the government and the NHS on the coronavirus vaccine …

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White House faces skepticism over prospects for a coronavirus vaccine
4 years, 6 months ago

White House faces skepticism over prospects for a coronavirus vaccine

India TV News  

Could the U.S. really see a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert and a member of Trump’s coronavirus task force, told CNN on Thursday that it is unlikely but “not impossible” that a vaccine could win approval in October, instead of November or December, as many experts believe. “And I would assume, and …

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White House faces skepticism over prospects for a vaccine
4 years, 6 months ago

White House faces skepticism over prospects for a vaccine

Associated Press  

Could the U.S. really see a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert and a member of Trump’s coronavirus task force, told CNN on Thursday that it is unlikely but “not impossible” that a vaccine could win approval in October, instead of November or December, as many experts believe. “And I would assume, and …

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Experts warn there are still legal ways the US could obtain COVIDSafe data
4 years, 11 months ago

Experts warn there are still legal ways the US could obtain COVIDSafe data

ABC  

Global tech giant Amazon may not be able to protect Australian Government data held in its Australian servers — including data gathered by the COVID-19 tracing app released on Sunday — from US subpoenas, according to legal experts and crossbenchers. Key points: Data from the Government's new COVIDSafe tracing app may be currently obtainable by US law enforcement via the …

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RBI Governor cautions against cherry-picking of data by experts
5 years, 8 months ago

RBI Governor cautions against cherry-picking of data by experts

India TV News  

Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday cautioned against cherry-picking of data by experts, saying correlations can conveniently be used to establish "spurious causality" to achieve desired results. The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister had, however, rejected the claim, saying Subramanian's analysis was based on "cherry-picking" of high-frequency indicators while ignoring data on services, agriculture and robust tax …

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das cautions against cherry-picking of data by experts
5 years, 9 months ago

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das cautions against cherry-picking of data by experts

Live Mint  

Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday cautioned against cherry-picking of data by experts, saying correlations can conveniently be used to establish "spurious causality" to achieve desired results. The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister had, however, rejected the claim, saying Subramanian's analysis was based on "cherry-picking" of high-frequency indicators while ignoring data on services, agriculture and robust tax …

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NSSO's unemployment data confirm crisis on the ground: experts
6 years, 1 month ago

NSSO's unemployment data confirm crisis on the ground: experts

The Hindu  

The National Sample Survey Office’s data showing a record spike in unemployment in 2017-18, which was published in a news report on Thursday, is a validation of trends seen on the ground, according to labour economists, job-seekers and workers’ representatives. Data confusion Dr. Basole noted that the government’s decision to discontinue the NSSO’s five year surveys, failure to regularly release …

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Mandating e-commerce firms to store user data exclusively in India will impact their business: Experts
6 years, 6 months ago

Mandating e-commerce firms to store user data exclusively in India will impact their business: Experts

Firstpost  

An initial draft policy set up to formulate a national e-commerce policy has suggested that all e-commerce companies will have to store user data exclusively in India in view of security and privacy concerns. New Delhi: Making it mandatory for e-commerce players operating in the country to store user data exclusively in India will impact their business, according to industry …

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Experts pick holes in data protection Bill
6 years, 8 months ago

Experts pick holes in data protection Bill

The Hindu  

While the draft Bill for protection of personal data of Indian citizens has been welcomed as a positive start, it is not without loopholes, according to various stakeholders who have called for an in-depth consultative process before the Bill becomes a law. Srikrishna, on Friday, submitted its report on data protection as well as the draft ‘The Personal Data Protection …

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Crisis experts say Facebook has mishandled the data scandal
7 years ago

Crisis experts say Facebook has mishandled the data scandal

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, accept responsibility and take decisive action. Facebook’s two top executives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, went radio silent after news broke last Friday that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly obtained from …

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How tech experts are tapping big data
8 years, 10 months ago

How tech experts are tapping big data

Live Mint  

By 2020, the world would have generated around 40 zettabytes of data, or 5,127 GB per individual, according to an estimate by researcher International Data Corp. By that year, researchers also expect about 50 billion devices and things to be connected, making the Internet of Things era a firm reality. Confluence of IoT and big data: Big Data came about …

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