by Surur
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Facebook recently landed in hot water after it was discovered that they used mobile numbers users submitted for two-factor authentication to match users to their real-life friend network using the phone numbers from those friend&#...
by Anmol
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Microsoft’s President Brad Smith recently released his book Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age which opened a pandora’s box. Earlier we reported how Brad Smith called the ban placed on Huaw...
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Twitter has shut down functionality which allowed users to text SMS messages to send a tweet. The move comes after CEO Jac Dorsey’s account was attacked last week and used as a platform to spread racist and white nationalist...
by Pradeep
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Federal Trade Commission today announced that Google and its subsidiary YouTube will pay a record $170 million fine for illegally collecting personal information from children without their parents’ consent. Google’s behav...
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Facebook had a somewhat creepy default face-scanning feature that wold scan and attempt to match faces in photos to the users they belonged to. After some discourse, the firm has now made some changes to how this works. It’s...
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Huawei today lashed out against the US government and what it perceives as a campaign of harassment after a news report regarding a DOJ probe on an alleged camera patent theft. Alongside proffering its own side of the story, the f...
by Anmol
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Google has agreed to pay up to $200 million to settle an FTC investigation into YouTube for breaking children’s privacy laws. The news was first reported by Politico who confirmed it from a person familiar with the matter. While...
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Instagram is now testing out a feature which allows users to control who can message them. Currently, any Instagram user can message any other account. This allows for a proliferation of spammers who add random people to group cha...
by Pradeep
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Google today announced the launch of Developer Data Protection Reward Program. It is a bounty program that will help Google to identify and mitigate data abuse issues in Android apps, OAuth projects, and Chrome extensions. You can...
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Apple is terminating the contracts of 100 of workers who were hired to listen to Siri recordings according to a report from the Guardian. Last month, Apple was revealed to be sending audio data over to contractors to improve Siri....
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Microsoft is under investigation again by the European Union. The body has been asked to investigate the firm by the Dutch Data Protection agency about how Windows 10 collects user data for telemetry. The firm had initially invest...
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Privacy on the web has been a game of whack-a-mole between developers and platform makers ever since Microsoft mass-deployed Do Not Track in Windows 10. Google wants to change that with its new privacy sandbox, a series of proposa...