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Privacy breach on Twitter: Bengaluru Police posts more than 40K phone numbers
Thursday, April 6, 2017 IST
Privacy breach on Twitter: Bengaluru Police posts more than 40K phone numbers


Bengaluru police’s  city room has been commercial enterprise on Twitter the phone numbers of thousands of voters news numerous crimes like gambling on the streets, random quarrels and harassment of girls.

If you're an honest good Samaritan in Bengaluru, then you may simply begin receiving prank calls or rather unwanted calls.

Why? Bengaluru town police have accidentally printed over forty,000 phone variety since April 2015 on Twitter of individuals UN agency have contacted them via emergency number a hundred to report numerous crimes like gambling on the streets, random quarrels and harassment of girls.

According to a report, the phone numbers of voters reaching the room through Bengaluru police’s new emergency mobile application, Suraksha, too, a square measure being printed underneath the Bengaluru Police’s Twitter handle -- @BCPCR.

However, the handle had solely sixty-six followers and a nearly half-hour of them alternative police stations within the town, however, the cops have closed the account for public read.
The report conjointly claims that a senior officer at Bengaluru police’s Command management was unapologetic for the breach of privacy and same that the tweets were generated mechanically and meant to ‘show’  the variety|the amount|the quantity} of calls received by the room and therefore the number of individuals victimization the new app.

The officer conjointly same that there was absolute confidence of privacy here because the defendant can come back to grasp UN agency reportable the crime.

However, the report conjointly quotes a Supreme Court professional person speech that the violation was deadly.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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