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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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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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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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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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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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Over 400 Popular Sites Record Every Keystroke, Claims Princeton Study
Researchers at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy claim that over 400 of the world's top 50,000 websites use such third-party session replay scripts.
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Expert Committee on Data Protection Has Been Set Up: Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has set up a Committee of Experts headed by former apex court judge B.N. Srikrishna.
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Parents Have No Right To Dead Child's Facebook Account, German Court Says
A German court rejected a mother's demand on Wednesday that Facebook grant her access to her deceased daughter's account.
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Google Begins Tracking Credit Card Spending in Physical Retail Stores
Google can now determine how many sales have been generated by digital ad campaigns, a goal that industry insiders have long described as "the holy grail" of online advertising.
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Government Working on Data Protection Law, Says IT Secretary
IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the government has "already taken cognisance of the fact that data is being put out indiscriminately in certain cases".
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Shadow Brokers, Hacker Group, Releases Password to Alleged NSA Files
An October leak by the group included information that experts said might identify computers used to obscure US electronic eavesdropping.
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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.
-
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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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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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.
-
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.
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Over 400 Popular Sites Record Every Keystroke, Claims Princeton Study
Researchers at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy claim that over 400 of the world's top 50,000 websites use such third-party session replay scripts.
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Expert Committee on Data Protection Has Been Set Up: Centre Tells Supreme Court
The Central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has set up a Committee of Experts headed by former apex court judge B.N. Srikrishna.
-
Parents Have No Right To Dead Child's Facebook Account, German Court Says
A German court rejected a mother's demand on Wednesday that Facebook grant her access to her deceased daughter's account.
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Google Begins Tracking Credit Card Spending in Physical Retail Stores
Google can now determine how many sales have been generated by digital ad campaigns, a goal that industry insiders have long described as "the holy grail" of online advertising.
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Government Working on Data Protection Law, Says IT Secretary
IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the government has "already taken cognisance of the fact that data is being put out indiscriminately in certain cases".
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Shadow Brokers, Hacker Group, Releases Password to Alleged NSA Files
An October leak by the group included information that experts said might identify computers used to obscure US electronic eavesdropping.
