All posts tagged "privacy"
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531PhonesInstagram Is Working On A New Feature
Are you finding your Instagram feed a little bit disturbing lately? You’d wish you had more control over what kind of content...
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375Future1000 Words or So About the Strange World of Voice Assistents Missfire
Voice assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Asisstant, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana are part of the norm now. We all accidentally...
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1.1KSecurityIsrael Passes Law to Track the Phones Of COVID-19 Infected People
As the world is going through an unprecedented lockdown, more and more extreme measures are being adopted in order to stop the...
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2.5KSecurityWant to Stop Facebook Tracking You Across the Web? You Can Now Finally Do It
Trust in Facebook and what it does with user data is at an all-time low, thanks to a host of high-profile scandals...
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2.3KMiscFBI Warns Popular FaceApp Is A “Significant Counterintelligence Threat” From Russia
Well, it seems some conspiracy theories might have some truth to them! Earlier this year, jokes (and warnings!) made the rounds that...
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3.8KMiscTim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Just Released A Set of Rules to Avert a “Digital Dystopia”
We’re sliding in a “digital dystopia”, thinks Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 and now...
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5.3KSecurityCops Can Get Their Hands on Your DNA
In trying to get in touch with your roots, you might find your privacy at risk. Recently, a detective got access to...
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7.4KSecurityAmazon’s Employees Watch And Listen To Video And Audio Recordings From Smart Home Devices
It looks like Amazon doesn’t plan to stop peeking into our lives very soon. A new report from Bloomberg cites anonymous sources...
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5.5KSecurityGoogle Uses Students and Homeless People To Train Facial Recognition System
According to a report from the New York Daily News, Google has been using some controversial methods, to say the least, in...
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666MiscCourt Rules ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Can Only Apply in The EU
The Right to Be Forgotten became a ruling in 2014 and allows the users to demand search engines certain information about them...
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2.2KMiscApple Lays Off 300 Contractors: Only In-House Employees Will Listen In To Siri Recordings
Apple, much like Microsoft and Google, has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that its contractors routinely listen in on private...
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536MiscU.S Court Temporarily Blocks Facebook’s Clear History Tool
It was back in 2018 that Facebook promised it will deliver a Clear History tool that would allow the users to remove...
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5.3KSecurityEU Considering Laws On Facial Recognition
According some some senior EU officials who have talked with the Financial Times, the European Commission is considering applying more strict rules...
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2.2KSecurityMicrosoft Admits Contractors Listen To Skype and Cortana Recordings, Updates Privacy Policy
At this point in time, pretty much every big tech company out there has been caught snooping into people’s private lives, especially...
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1.9KSecurityRobocall Blocking Apps Sent Private Data Without User Permission
There’s currently bills and laws being proposed that aim to stop robocalls from happening and give companies and the users more power...
