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Facebook to make safer enviroment for new users

May 23, 2014

Due to pressure coming from its 1.28 billion users, Facebook has decided to make some changes to its privacy settings. New Facebook users will now only have their posts shared with family and friends, with a...

No more ads in Google Apps for Education

Abby Smith

Apr 30, 2014

Innovation

Google has announced to turn off the ads for the students and teachers using Google Apps for Education. The action was probably done under the light of past law suits and a recent one filed by the two Calif. st...

Facebook Newswire : A possible threat to user’s privacy

David

Apr 27, 2014

Innovation

Although the normal Facebook users love to have the pictures, videos and updates from their friends and relatives, there are few who want to have a breaking news and more. Facebook on Thursday introduced a new ...

NSA denies to exploit HeartBleed for Backdoor Hacking

David

Apr 12, 2014

Innovation

Yesterday we had reports from Bloomberg claiming that the NSA has exploited the bug 'HeartBleed' in OpenSSL for almost two years and kept it in dark for the sake of national security. But today NSA denied the v...

HTC One M8 tracks movement data secretly even when it’s Off [video]

David

Apr 8, 2014

Innovation

A video emerged out from a Google plus account showing HTC One M8 IR LED glowing up even while its turned off. Adam Outler, a hacker and a XDA TV host, showed his HTC One M8 glowing an IR LED whenever it encou...

Google had a rise where Yahoo reflected a decline in government request for users’ data

Abby Smith

Mar 30, 2014

Innovation

Google said that the rise in requests for the users' data across the world has increased. Saying it is almost 120 times more than it was last year, the company stated, majority of the request is from the U.S. g...

Privacy Groups call to halt Facebook and WhatsApp $19bn deal

Abby Smith

Mar 7, 2014

Innovation

Privacy Groups in US has made a call to US Federal Trade Commission for investigating the $19 billion deal Facebook made to buy WhatsApp Inc. In the favor of end user privacy, US-based Electronic Privacy Inform...

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