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How To Use Public Wi-Fi Safely When Travelling
Staying connected while travelling should feel effortless, and with a few thoughtful habits, it can stay that way without compromising your safety.
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Online Shopping Scams: Follow These 7 Steps And Avoid Falling Prey To Them
Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.
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Clearview AI Facial Recognition Company Breached Privacy Law: French Watchdog CNIL
France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country.
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Online Shopping Scams: Follow These 7 Steps And Avoid Falling Prey To Them
Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.
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Worried About Privacy for Your Selfies? These Tools Can Help Spoof Facial Recognition AI
These new tools make tiny changes to an image that are not visible to the human eye but can confuse an AI, forcing the software to make a mistake.
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Madras High Court Orders Central Government To Ban TikTok App
The bench asked the government if it would enact a statute like the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the U.S.
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TikTok Hit With $5.7 Million Fine Over Child Privacy
TikTok is now making changes to better accommodate younger users in the U.S. based on guidance from the Federal Trade Commission.
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TikTok Hit With $5.7 Million Fine Over Child Privacy
TikTok is now making changes to better accommodate younger users in the U.S. based on guidance from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Google Chrome Automatically Signs You in When You Log in to Gmail or YouTube - Should You Be Worried?
Google quietly began signing users in to Chrome when they use any Google service, and privacy watchers are up in arms. Do you need to be concerned?
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5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy in the Digital Age
There's no way to eliminate privacy risks nowadays short of unplugging entirely, but you can minimise the odds with these tips.
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Europe Embraces New Privacy Rules: Check Your Settings
New privacy rules in Europe, review your privacy settings to know.
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Google's Facebook Copycat Moves Put It In Privacy Hot Seat
No one at Google envied Mark Zuckerberg last week as he was being grilled by Congress. But for years, they certainly coveted the personal data that made Facebook Inc. a formidable digital ad player. And the strategies they set to compete have now placed Google squarely in the cross hairs of a privacy backlash against the world's largest social-medi...
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Thousands Of Android Apps May Be Illegally Tracking Children, Study Finds
Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data collection efforts.
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Facebook Rolls Out Tools to Block Unwanted Friend Requests, Messages
The new Facebook features proactively recognise and help prevent unwanted contact when someone you blocked sets up a new account or tries to contact you from another account they control.
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Netflix's 'Creepy' Tweet Is a Reminder How Closely You Are Being Watched
"To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?" the tweet said.
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How To Use Public Wi-Fi Safely When Travelling
Staying connected while travelling should feel effortless, and with a few thoughtful habits, it can stay that way without compromising your safety.
-
Online Shopping Scams: Follow These 7 Steps And Avoid Falling Prey To Them
Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.
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Clearview AI Facial Recognition Company Breached Privacy Law: French Watchdog CNIL
France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has collected 10 billion images worldwide, to stop amassing and using data from people based in the country.
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Online Shopping Scams: Follow These 7 Steps And Avoid Falling Prey To Them
Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.
-
Worried About Privacy for Your Selfies? These Tools Can Help Spoof Facial Recognition AI
These new tools make tiny changes to an image that are not visible to the human eye but can confuse an AI, forcing the software to make a mistake.
-
Madras High Court Orders Central Government To Ban TikTok App
The bench asked the government if it would enact a statute like the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the U.S.
-
TikTok Hit With $5.7 Million Fine Over Child Privacy
TikTok is now making changes to better accommodate younger users in the U.S. based on guidance from the Federal Trade Commission.
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TikTok Hit With $5.7 Million Fine Over Child Privacy
TikTok is now making changes to better accommodate younger users in the U.S. based on guidance from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Google Chrome Automatically Signs You in When You Log in to Gmail or YouTube - Should You Be Worried?
Google quietly began signing users in to Chrome when they use any Google service, and privacy watchers are up in arms. Do you need to be concerned?
-
5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy in the Digital Age
There's no way to eliminate privacy risks nowadays short of unplugging entirely, but you can minimise the odds with these tips.
-
Europe Embraces New Privacy Rules: Check Your Settings
New privacy rules in Europe, review your privacy settings to know.
-
Google's Facebook Copycat Moves Put It In Privacy Hot Seat
No one at Google envied Mark Zuckerberg last week as he was being grilled by Congress. But for years, they certainly coveted the personal data that made Facebook Inc. a formidable digital ad player. And the strategies they set to compete have now placed Google squarely in the cross hairs of a privacy backlash against the world's largest social-medi...
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Thousands Of Android Apps May Be Illegally Tracking Children, Study Finds
Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data collection efforts.
-
Facebook Rolls Out Tools to Block Unwanted Friend Requests, Messages
The new Facebook features proactively recognise and help prevent unwanted contact when someone you blocked sets up a new account or tries to contact you from another account they control.
-
Netflix's 'Creepy' Tweet Is a Reminder How Closely You Are Being Watched
"To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?" the tweet said.
