Tag: privacy

You can ignore it but can't hide it from Google, be it your internet browsing experience, your interest in products you want to buy, books you wish to read, places you wish to visit or the list of products you have already bought. Yes, you read it right!Google is tracking everything you buy online or offline and have the...

If you are among the ones who are cant refrain from using Chrome browser but don't like advertising firms peeping into your digital life through cookies, here is a good news for you! Google is all set to release some new tool that will allow Chrome users to restrict companies to track your digital activities.The soon to be released...

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), is in the clutches of federal governors, who are contemplating over Zuckerberg whether to hold him liable for the data breach of more than 2 million users.According to the Washington Post reports, the argument of whether to extend overlooking of Facebook's CEO appears as the social media giant is in parleys to resolve scrutiny...

The US-based social media behemoth Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is in the spotlight again for being entangled in password-linked mayhem. Facebook revealed that the company has inadvertently uploaded email contacts of nearly 1.5 million of its naive-new users on the social media site since May 2016.The retrieved contacts, however, were not obviously shared or abused by neither any marketing agency nor...

Facebook is ironically asking some of its new users to hand over their email ID passwords as a verification process to authenticate new Facebook accounts. The San Fransisco based social-media behemoth Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is making a prompt to some of its new users to reveal the password of their personal email ID - used while signing up with...

A New York-based grand jury issued a writ petition on Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) over the allegation of sharing the personal details of its users with at least two smartphone and other device manufacturers. In continuation of that writ, today the American Federal investigation agency has reportedly opened up fresh criminal proceedings on Facebook for sharing the sensitive personal...

A scathing 108-page report by British lawmakers has accused Facebook of acting like a digital gangster with scant regard for user privacy and flouting anti-competition laws.The report by the U.K. Digital, Culture, Media and Sports committee was published on Monday. It comes after an 18-month-old investigation into allegations of disinformation and fake news spread over the networking site.The report...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is reportedly negotiating with the U.S. government a record, multi-billion dollar fine for breaching user privacy, after being accused of sharing personal information regarding 87 million users inappropriately with the now defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.The breaches might cost the Mark Zuckerberg owned network dear because, as per a Washington Post report, the penalty might...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has always valued and paid attention to privacy more than its competitors. However, recent developments have stated otherwise. According to a Techcrunch report, some of the popular iPhone apps record the way you interact with their apps. This may include using technology to record your taps and swipes when you're in the app. The collected data...

Already facing flak for tricking kids into spending money while playing games on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) by using their parents’ payment details, the social giant is in the midst of a new controversy. As per the recent report, Facebook has been secretly paying teenagers and unsuspecting adults to get unlimited access to their devices by installing an app cleverly guised...

Having faced major trust issues and allegations of the privacy breach in 2018 over the manner in which Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) handled the personal data of 2.2 billion users all over the world, Zuckerberg once again defended his company’s business model in the Wall Street Journal op-ed while elaborately explaining how the world's largest online social platform operates.In the...

With data privacy laws getting stricter by the day for the major tech giants to abide by, it is bound that someone would be making a mistake sooner or later. In this case, it is indeed Google (Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)). Google has just been handed a fine of $57 million by France's top data-privacy agency, CNIL. The Allegations Against Google The...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook recently spoke against the "big tech companies" using their consumers' privacy for profits. However, when you're in a deal with one of the companies you just blasted, you might be on the receiving end of a few uncomfortable questions. Let us have a look into the speech and its implications in detail. Privacy: A Cause...

There are over 3.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, who have over 7 million apps at their disposal. Many of these applications seek permission to access our location, calls, camera and many others. Most of us are not comfortable with exposing none of our personal information though, to ease out various essential tasks in our daily life many times we...

The recent Facebook fiasco trigged a debate on the safety and security of internet users' data collected by tech giants, including Google. While many countries are still evaluating many proposed practices to safeguard the private information of their countrymen, EU set some strict deadline, 25 May 2018, for publishers worldwide to adhere to GDPR, which European Parliament passed in April...

What do you get from allowing the world's largest social network to police itself? A fiasco.Problems for Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) users seem to be escalating unceasingly. Amidst Facebook data breach debacle, Mark Zuckerberg has dropped another bombshell by saying that most of its 2.13 billion users' data could be under threat, in a data harvest operation entirely separate from...