privacy

Apple users must not cover MacBook camera! It all started a few years back when Mark Zuckerberg was spotted covering his laptop camera for security reasons. Users were quick to speculate the reasons behind and the most prominent was...

The social media behemoth Facebook is imposing stringent actions over the data harvesting companies who were supposedly using automated software for selling Instagram likes, followers and web scraping Facebook's private user data. Yes, this week, Facebook has filed a lawsuit...

Google Chrome, the dominant partaker which accounts for two-thirds of the web browser industry, has now detected a severe threat of spying on the user data by some of its approved and listed extensions. Yes, Chrome is under the zoom...

Last year when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was accused of recording everything that iPhone users were talking through Siri, the company was quick to realise the potential damage and acted promptly. Not only did Apple apologised but also assured users...

With the growing number of people worldwide now trying to adapt to the ‘work-from-home’ situation amid the Covid-19 outbreak, Zoom which is a popular video conferencing app and facilitates smoother remote work witnessed a huge spike in their user...

The developers of WhatsApp have started working on a new feature that will improve its privacy features, albeit an interesting addition. We depend upon the messengers like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat for our day to day communication now. At...

The social media behemoth, Facebook is finally letting the world take a peek behind their closed doors when it comes to how they are operating. Recently, the company has opened up about how they are combatting the creation of...

The year 2019 has witnessed the tech giant Facebook squirm and squeal under the public microscope since it’s alleged involvement with the now infamous Cambridge Analytica in regards to data theft and privacy violations. The whole event heavily tested...

Facebook’s extensive history of antitrust allegations has culminated in a leaked trove of 7,000+ documents substantiating the most previous allegation. These documents were leaked by an anonymous source to investigative reporter Daniel Campbell, who further released them to news agencies...

Twitter has disclosed that it unknowingly used user credentials like phone numbers and e-mails for targeted advertising. The statement was made in an official blog-post released on Tuesday, 8 October.  The social media site confessed that the phone numbers and...