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The Washington Post reports that Facebook and the FTC are having discussions about a multi-billion dollar fine due to Facebook’s privacy issues over the past year. While the exact amount isn’t clear yet, as Facebook c...
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Facebook’s security team is able to track users whom the firm deems a threat, according to a report by CNBC today. The firm employs this service to keep its offices safe, but there are ethical issues raised by this. On the o...
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Apple has rolled out the iOS 12.1.4 update to iPhone users today (spotted by Enagdget), fixing the bug with Group Facetime that allowed users to eavesdrop on the audio of the receiver before they picked up. The firm had earlier di...
by Pradeep
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Mozilla today announced the release of Firefox 65 for Windows with improved privacy controls, AV1 support and more. With the Enhanced Tracking Protection, Firefox now allows users to see and control how websites track them on the...
by Surur
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Firefox is currently marketing itself as the privacy alternative to Google’s data slurping Chrome browser, but it turns out the browser has had a major privacy flaw which competitors, including Chrome, Edge, Opera and more h...
by Surur
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Mozilla has positioned Firefox as the champion of privacy and independence on the internet but appears to be increasingly at risk of losing the trust of users. The latest controversy regarding the company is its implementation of ...
by Anmol
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There is a certain tension among the private companies and the government when it comes to the sharing of data. While companies openly claim that they never share data with anyone including the government, we don’t always kn...
by Surur
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Microsoft Research has been doing some research into speaker and microphone arrays as often found in smart speakers. They have found that an array of speakers could be used for beamforming, allowing them to direct sound to a speci...
by Surur
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Facebook is perpetually wrapped in privacy scandals, but these usually involve unnamed small developers. Today’s Facebook scandal involves numerous big-names, including Microsoft, Netflix and others, after it was revealed ...
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Facebook’s privacy situation just keeps getting worse. The firm discovered — and made public a bug that had affected its app between September 13 and September 25. This bug would allow apps which were granted access to...
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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...