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To handle Financial Crime the Payment or Financial bodies should call for digital IDs : To Verify a person’s identity and their associations with firms, assets, and other individuals can be complicated, expensive, and error-prone. However, advanced solutions such as biometrics mean Financial Institutions can now create and maintain digital ID solutions that benefit customers, the financial services industry, and potentially other industries. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Open Letter to Government of India (Mr. R.S Prasad) by Mozilla, Wikimedia, and Github : Withdraw proposal and start fresh consultation : Global internet organizations Mozilla (a not-for-profit behind the popular web browser Firefox), the Wikimedia Foundation, and GitHub have submitted an open letter to the Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, expressing serious concerns over the draft intermediary liability rules proposed by the Ministry last month. The Ministry had invited comments from stakeholders till 31st January before initiating next steps. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Facebook is paying Teens $20 per Month to Install 'Facebook Research' App That Collects Private Data - Project Atlas : The social media giant FaceBook was previously gripped for collecting user data data through Onavo Protect, which is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service that it acquired in 2013, and due to data violation activities, being forced to remove its Onavo VPN app from Apple's App Store. But Facebook is not a bit silent for the same rather it is paying teenagers around $20 a month to use its VPN app that aggressively monitors their smartphone and web activity and then sends it back to Facebook. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

India's Largest bank SBI with Poor Digital Security Practices - Leaked Millions of Customers Account Data : A report from Techcrunch on Wednesday disclosed that the SBI Data Server which is hosted at Mumbai have leaked details of millions of bank accounts information,  which had not protected the server with a password, allowing anyone who knew where to look to access the data on millions of customers’ information.This data center has stored two months of data from SBI Quick, a text message and call-based system used to request basic information about their bank accounts by customers of the government-owned State Bank of India (SBI), the largest bank in the country and a highly ranked company in the Fortune 500 VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

ASUS unveils smallest range of 13”, 14” and 15” ZenBook series laptops : ASUS has announced the most compact ZenBook series laptops, packing awe-inspiring aesthetics and superb performance. The latest models represent the high-tech couture ZenBook laptop series that is world-renowned for its beautiful, thin-and-light minimalist designs. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE