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    Samsung Max App With Data Saving and Privacy Protection Features Released

    HIGHLIGHTS Samsung Max app has been released The app is available for select Galaxy devices Replaces the Opera Max app on Galaxy A and Galaxy J handsets Samsung on Friday released an Android app that is designed to offer mobile data savings and privacy management. Called Samsung Max, the new app is designed by Samsung R&D Institute India […]

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    TRAI Recommendations on Data Privacy to Be Released by January

    Telecom regulator TRAI will come out with its recommendations on guidelines for data privacy, security and ownership by January and is very close to finalising suggestions for the controversial net neutrality, a top official said Thursday. “Currently, there is a huge amount of monopoly and that monopoly is becoming bigger and bigger. We are saying you can […]

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    The Guardian view on privacy: computers gossip

    Our digital lives are now as real as money, and so debates about online privacy are actually about our political freedoms. Photograph: Alamy Wednesday 30 August 2017 19.04 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 30 August 2017 22.00 BST At the beginning of the internet age, people used to go online, but no longer. Instead we live there from the moment […]

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    20 Top Privacy Screen Protectors for Your Computers and Phones

    With he list of security threats ever increasing, you can now add visual hacking to the list, which as the name implies is when individuals look at your screen to steal information. With smartphones, tablets and laptops now being used outside of the office just as much as inside, you have to take precautions if […]

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    Encryption Row Spotlights Fears on Security, Privacy

    HIGHLIGHTS The weeks-long showdown between the FBI and Apple ended last month. Snowden stoked fears of electronic surveillance to become pervasive. Recently WhatsApp had implemented end to end encryption in its app too. Has encryption technology given the bad guys a way to operate in the dark? Or has the new tech age gifted law […]

  • COMPUTERS
    20 Top Privacy Screen Protectors for Your Computers and Phones

    With he list of security threats ever increasing, you can now add visual hacking to the list, which as the name implies is when individuals look at your screen to steal information. With smartphones, tablets and laptops now being used outside of the office just as much as inside, you have to take precautions if […]

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    EU Privacy Watchdogs Warn WhatsApp on Privacy Policy, Yahoo on Breach

    HIGHLIGHTS EU sent letters to WhatsApp and Yahoo Said they had concerns about WhatsApp’s recent change in privacy policy Asked Yahoo to communicate all aspects of the data breach European privacy watchdogs said on Friday they had sent letters to WhatsApp over its sharing of information with parent company Facebook and Yahoo over a 2014 […]

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    SwiftKey Suspends Sync Services After Some Users Report Privacy Breach

    HIGHLIGHTS Several users reported unexpected predictions SwiftKey says majority of its users are not affected by the issue Microsoft acquired SwiftKey earlier this year SwiftKey keyboard app has been leaking email addresses and mobile numbers of some users, and as a countermeasure, the Microsoft-owned firm has turned off its cloud sync service. Several SwiftKey keyboard […]

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    Facebook Wins Privacy Case Against Belgian Data Protection Authority

    The Belgian data protection authority on Wednesday lost a legal battle with Facebook in which it sought to stop the social network from tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit the social network’s pages. The Belgian Privacy Commission said the Brussels Appeals Court had dismissed its case on the grounds that […]