Social networking has become an integral part of the modern-day lifestyle, enabling millions and millions of users to connect with each other and share their thoughts. And at the very top of the social network pyramid lies Faceboo...
Google has found itself in hot water after an investigation found that it had violated Dutch data protection laws. The investigation was done by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), and they found that Google had gathered in...
Due to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the spying prowess of the NSA, many people have been irked with using computers, smartphones, tablets and even gaming consoles — thinking in the back of our minds whether this ...
With the advancement of technology and social media, privacy is becoming more and more of a concern. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, believes that privacy is something that will be harder and harder to maintain. As ...
It seems that the National Security Agency (NSA) may have been working with Level 3, whose fiber optics cables connect both Yahoo and Google’s data centers, to spy on these companies. Level 3 is an internet service provider ...
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More information from the Edward Snowden leaks has revealed that, as of 2007, there was an agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States that would allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to keep records on UK citize...
Guess it's time to turn off chat.
At the World Wide Web Foundation’s second annual conference, Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the founder of the internet, vehemently exclaimed that internet surveillance is a threat to democracy, that such a practice does not c...
Don’t want people to know who your Facebook friends are, then you probably should be aware that just about anyone can find out who is on your list. Facebook promises that you can choose to make your friends private. Unfortunately,...
Vint Cerf, who is credited by many with the title as one of the “fathers of the internet” believes that as time goes on and as social media continues to prosper, privacy will become something that is more and more diff...
In a move that is clearly a response to the fact that communications between Yahoo data centers have been monitored by the National Security Agency, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, has promised to have Yahoo’s user data en...
The Internet giant Google has made yet another major change in wake of NSA spying. Originally, their goal was to enact new security certificates with a 2,048 bit encryption by the end of the year. They beat their deadline by over ...
Apparently Microsoft, one of the most popular computer companies, does not have any data encryption when it comes to “server-to-server communications”. This means when your data is passing from one Microsoft server to ...
Luxemburg data protection commissioner has found that Microsoft and Skype have not broken any European privacy laws when they sent customer data back to the United States. The decision of the National Commission for Data Protectio...
