If the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), proposed to be set up under the bill, is satisfied that an advertisement is false or misleading, it may issue directions to endorsers, advertiser, publisher as well traders and manufacturers to discontinue or modify such an ad.

“Users are advised to avoid downloading apps from third party app stores or links provided in SMSs and emails to keep their credentials safe,” Sanjay Katkar, Joint Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Quick Heal Technologies Limited, said in a statement. 

Committee also found it “rather disconcerting” that even as the country moves towards a digital economy, transactional hassles and grievances of users, including ATM frauds such as cloning, have also been increasing manifold. Ordinary customers are then left high and dry, extremely helpless and clueless about the next course of action for a remedy and redressal of grievance,” the report said. 

The ministry adopted a slew of measures to ensure accidents are reduced to a minimum in the coming year – renewal of tracks at a fast pace, use of ultrasonic flaw detection testing of rails, track recording cars and portable oscillation monitoring systems to detect track defects, introduction of train protection and warning system, and development of the Train Collision Avoidance System which is now at the trial stages. ​​​​​​​ 

an inter-disciplinary standing committee on cbyer security has been constituted by the RBI comprising academia, information security audit, forensic and cybersecurity experts.The committee reviews, inter alia, threats inherent in the existing or emerging technology, and suggests appropriate policy interventions.

“This is establishment of an institution in India’s pursuit of safe and secure cyberspace. Any unusual movement on the NIC network, any attacks, intrusions will be detected and cleaned,” Prasad said.The government has already announced setting up of similar frameworks for the finance and power sectors, he added.