There was a time when just drawing the window shades ensured a private sanctuary. But the digital age is less shade and more glaring light, and it is shining brightly on personal data. “There has never been another time in history where privacy was under the kind of assault it is today,” said Rainey Reitman, […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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But its not just Google and Facebook mixing data to find trends and make decisions, it’s data collected by any technology and used by automobiles, high-tech home sensors, insurance providers, employers, retail sites and political parties. Lately, however, it is social sites, fed with user-created content, dominating the privacy news. Those sites have a thirst […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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This week, the European Commission proposed new online privacy rules that give users among other protections the right to ask for the deletion of information about them on sites such as Facebook and Google. The proposal, which if passed into law would go into effect in 2014, would have global implications. “Companies will have to […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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Simpson is working with the World Wide Web Consortium on a “do not track” standard. Giving that sense of control back to users might just be a wave that could catch on. This week in the wake of Google’s new privacy policy, an informal Washington Post survey of nearly 14,000 readers showed nearly 66% were […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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Twitter had earlier announced their new policy to withhold publication of messages, containing illegal and offensive thoughts, in certain countries and restricted their freedom of expression. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the limits of freedom of expression." The social network revealed their policy in a short note. […]
Jan 29 2012 | Posted in
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A tweet is a 140-character message, which you can send through Twitter if you are a user of this network. A twitter user had every right to write anything inside the message box until yesterday. Twitter has now announced that from now onwards they could block messages that falls in the "unauthorized entity" of any particular country and […]
Jan 27 2012 | Posted in
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After Sunny Leone KRK now takes a dig at Vidya Balan and Bipasha Basu Kamaal Rashid Khan, who is more commonly known as KRK, not too long ago passed on some vulgar statements about the Indo-Canadian porn star, Sunny Leone, when Pooja Bhatt revealed that Leone is going to play a lead in her much […]
Jan 25 2012 | Posted in
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Twitter does not like the recent changes made by Google in their search engine algorithm, that incorporates contents of Google + results. The social network believes that it is a bad policy for consumers and content publishers out of Google’s social network. Twitter says that the change will make it difficult for the surfer in […]
Jan 17 2012 | Posted in
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Pooja Bedi gets a shut up call from Farah Khan Ali? – Bigg Boss 5 Pooja Bedi, who was one of the thirteen contestants to participate in the fifth season of the Bigg Boss reality show, not too long ago accused Salman Khan and Bigg Boss of favouring Mahek Chahal inside the Bigg Boss house. […]
Jan 10 2012 | Posted in
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“I don’t think I’m gonna live much longer” – 50 Cent’s shock Tweet The extravagance has always been linked to the world of music and its artists. The latest in line is is 50 Cent, who has surprised his fans with a gloomy statement. The famous rapper has stated that he doesn’t believe he has […]
Jan 6 2012 | Posted in
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Last year, the Texas water supply system got hacked to prove it can be alongside several banks in Europe, by a single hacker. The very Die Hard 4 moment can therefore be expected in the near future and that is not going to be pretty because there might not be a John McClane to save […]
Jan 3 2012 | Posted in
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The year 2011 was anything but secure in terms of internet security and what made it worse was the integration of the public sector organizations that regulate the utilities like water were exposed to the cloud without taking any prior precautions. The corporate sector or the CIA being the target of the hacktivists has been […]
Jan 3 2012 | Posted in
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