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Privacy

21 posts
Facebook

Facebook bug promoted misinformation and harmful content on news feed for over six months, now fixed

Facebook is back in news, and it is back to back in…
Apple

Apple reportedly stores user data locally in China, thus making it easier for government access

An investigative report released by the New York Times has brought to…
WhatsApp

WhatsApp updates terms of service, will start sharing user data with Facebook

Millions of WhatsApp users from India received a notification on the updated…

Telecom operators in India red flag Government requests for call data records for ‘all users’ in some regions

In what would certainly come under questionable use of power, the central…
amazon logo

Amazon publishes its 2nd transparency report for 2019

Amazon has quietly published its transparency report and reported a slight dip…

Uber announces in-trip audio recording, ridecheck and PIN verification safety features in India

In-trip audio record, a safety feature by Uber that was in reports…
facebook, atomico / europe, eu, European Union, roaming

EU’s 2018 privacy laws are reportedly being adopted by the US as well

Privacy is important. And with the advent of newer methods of infringing…
vivaldi

Vivaldi’s latest update re-imagines the history page, intros a revamped note-taking feature

Nearly after two months of the release of version 1.7, Vivaldi-the preferred…

UK passes the Investigatory Power Act into a law, will allow monitoring of web usage

Described as the most extreme surveillance legislation ever passed in a democracy,…

Google quietly updates privacy policy to drop ban on personally identifiable web tracking

Over the past couple decades, Google has established itself as the biggest…
WhatsApp

German regulator orders Facebook to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users

Last month, Facebook announced that it would be collecting some user data…

Uber Deploys ‘Disguised Phone Numbers’ To Protect Personal Contact Information

San Francisco HQ’d American company, Uber has been quite busy in the…
Twitter

Twitter Sued For Invading User Privacy By Utilizing Its DM Feature In A Class Action Lawsuit

Twitter is the target of a class action lawsuit which accuses the micro-blogging…
apple, india stores, iphone

‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features Won’t Breach Your Privacy, Clarifies Apple

With new personalised cloud features rolling out in iOS9, it might initially seem…
Twitter

Twitter Expands Its Copyrightable Tweets Bandwidth, No More Stealing Jokes

Technically, micro-blogging website Twitter, has been known to regard its users’ copyright grounds quite…