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Facebook changes default audience to ‘Friends’
Facebook thinks about its users’ privacy.
Silent Circle pulls in $30 million; will use it to cater to overwhelming demands of Blackphone
Silent Circle, a secure private communications firm, has raised $30 million in a funding round from investors including Ross Perot Jr. and Cain Capital. The $30 million secured will be used to…
Virgin Media apologises for the email glitch
Virgin Media on Wednesday offered an apology to thousands of its customers whose e-mail inbox were bombarded with spam emails, following a mailing list error. The issue was that one of the…
Microsoft Azure is the first to receive European cloud privacy approval
Microsoft confirmed that its enterprise cloud service has earned an approval from the European privacy regulators, claiming to be the first cloud provider to meet the high standards of EU cloud privacy…
72% of Americans express privacy concerns over Google Glass
A recent study by Toluna, a market research firm, revealed that 72 percent of those polled didn’t want to wear Google Glass because of privacy concerns. The study comprised of over 1,000…
Microsoft changes privacy policy in wake of Hotmail snooping
Microsoft announced changes to its privacy policy on Friday under which it will no longer snoop on customers’ private communications on suspicions of violating intellectual property rights. This move comes a week…
Jan Koum pens strongly-worded post over WhatsApp privacy concerns
Jan Koum, WhatsApp CEO, has penned a strongly-worded post over on WhatsApp’s blog to set “the record straight” about data and privacy post Facebook’s acquisition. Koum notes that he and his team…
India may investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Facebook’s recent WhatsApp acquisition is on Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) radar and the government agency is likely to investigate the deal considering the number of Indians using both the services. Like…
Privacy groups want FTC to investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal
Privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), have approached the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to hold the Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp,…
WhatsApp alternative Threema tops German App Store charts
Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the latter at least in Germany as within 24 hours of the acquisition announcement, Threema – a Swiss instant messaging app and…
WhatsApp for Android beta increases privacy; lets you hide your ‘last seen’ status
Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp caused a lot of ripples in the technology world and raised almost all brows across the business and corporate segment with some regulators even claiming that the acquisition…
Users’ personal information not safe post Facebook-WhatsApp acquisition says German privacy regulator
Citing Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp German data protection regulator on Thursday has urged WhatsApp users to switch to a more safe and secure messaging service immediately. The social networking giant on Wednesday…
Apple, Amazon value user privacy over ad revenue
Recent article from AdAge details Apple and Amazon take long time to develop ad products as the companies value the privacy of users and that’s why both the companies have been dubbed…
Kaspersky backpedals on Facebook SMS claims
Kaspersky is backpedaled on its earlier statements wherein it claimed that Facebook was intentionally reading users’ SMS and other confidential information. In an emailed statement to various media outlets, Kaspersky denied being…