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Facebook earlier this year got into trouble once it was discovered the firm was using Android permissions to access your SMS and contacts data. The firm acted quickly once this become public, allowing more privacy permissions and...
by Surur
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While Microsoft has so far escaped the intense scrutiny of Facebook, they do in fact have their own social network, with access to their data, and through their contact books also the data of millions of non-users. Now the Irish D...
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Microsoft is improving LinkedIn;s privacy by adding a toggle to prevent your email address from being swept up in another user’s data archive. LinkedIn currently lets users export their user data with complete with the ema...
by Surur
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Office telemetry has been found to be in violation of General Data Protection Regulation by Dutch regulators, reports the Telegraph. The complaint centres around the normal software monitoring of ...
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella reaffirmed his firm’s commitment to privacy this weekend in an interview with the UK’s Times after its Future Decoded conference. The firm spoke about how it would be using data derived...
by Surur
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Satya Nadella’s compensation was recently tied to the financial performance of LinkedIn, which likely explains Microsoft’s latest move. According to the Bing Ads blog, Microsoft is inviting advertisers in USA to target...
by Anmol
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Google has decided to shut down its social media website Google+ after a massive data breach which potentially exposed data of over 500,000 users. Google has since decided to shut down the network for consumers. The company said i...
by Surur
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Google was recently the subject of a backlash after pushing privacy boundaries by automatically signing in users into the Chrome browser is they log into a Google property on the Internet. Google responded by promising to make a n...
by Surur
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It seems Google is determined to turn their 20th anniversary into a self-parody of their earlier “Don’t be Evil” slogan. We wrote earlier about Chrome 69 automatically logging you into the browser when you log i...
by Surur
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Along with Material Design, the latest version of Google’s popular Chrome browser also brings along some under the hood changes which may not be as desirable to users concerned about their privacy. With Google Chrome 69, log...
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“Don’t be evil,” Google once said It seems that motto has been discarded as more and more “evil” practices come to light. Today, it was discovered that Google had the practice of maintaining the locat...
