Silent Circle has partnered with Geeksphone to create a privacy oriented smartphone dubbed Blackphone that it claims is the first handset to place privacy and control in user’s control and that too…
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Opting out of the new Gmail ‘Email via Google+’ feature
Are you concerned about strangers emailing you through ‘email via Google+’ option? Are you worried that your inbox will be flooded with unwanted emails from complete strangers? No worries. You can control…
Google adds new ‘Email via Google+’ feature to Gmail
Google has introduced a new feature which it claims will make it easier for people to reach each other without actually knowing their email address and will allow them to communicate over…
Line launches Whoscall to help users block unwanted calls
Messaging chat app company Line has launched a new app called Whoscall that will allows its users to block unwanted calls. Line acquired GogoLook last month and Whoscall app is a rebranded…
Yahoo Mail defaults to HTTPS
Yahoo is now automatically encrypting connections to its Yahoo Mail service as promised in November last year. All connections to Yahoo Mail servers from clients across the globe will now be encrypted…
Facebook faces class-action lawsuit over alleged private message snooping
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit initiated by two of its users, Matthew Campbell and Michael Hurley, who claim that the social network’s ‘private’ message feature is actually not private. The duo…
Spain slaps £751,000 fine on Google over privacy policy
Spanish Data Protection Agency has slapped a €900,000 (£751,000) fine on Google over three separate instances of violation of Spain’s Data Protection Act. The Spanish watchdog, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos…
Dutch privacy authorities accuse Google of data protection law violation
Dutch privacy watchdog, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), after a seven-month investigation, has accused Google of breaching Dutch personal data protection law since it introduced a new privacy policy last year….
Consumer data privacy lawsuit against Apple dismissed
A consumer lawsuit against Apple over data privacy issue has been dismissed by a California federal judge on Monday as the judge found the plaintiffs failed to show they actually relied on…