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Facebook stops review of govt requests for user data from Hong Kong
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], July 7 (ANI): Social media giant Facebook on Monday said it would temporarily stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data as the company reviews the controversial national security law.
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Comply with data privacy, have not shared user data with China: TikTok
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Short video making app TikTok, one of the 59 apps banned by the Central government on Tuesday, has said that it complies with all data privacy and security requirements under the Indian law and has not shared any information of its users in India with any fo
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Bharti Airtel shares jump 8.7 pc despite Q4 loss of Rs 5,237 crore
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The shares of telecom major Bharti Airtel jumped by 8.75 per cent during early hours on Tuesday despite the company reported a net loss of Rs 5,237 crore in the January to March quarter.
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Aarogya Setu data only shared with government officials directly involved
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): The Central government's Aarogya Setu mobile application is based on "privacy-first by design" principle keeping in mind the safety and privacy of users' data, said Amitabh Kant, CEO of Niti Aayog. He added that the user data from the app would only be pro
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FBI takes down a website that sold private data from breaches
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington, D.C. [USA], Jan 20 (ANI): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken down a website for selling private user data from thousands of data breaches.
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Instagram bans startup over wrongfully collecting user data
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
California [USA], Aug 8 (ANI): A day after Facebook sued two app developers over click fraud, Instagram has banned a partner for scraping user data.
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Facebook slapped with record USD 5 billion fine by FTC
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
California [USA], July 24 (ANI): In what is believed to be the second-largest penalty ever, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially announced its USD 5 billion settlement with Facebook over its mishandling of users' data in Cambridge Analytica and other privacy breaches.
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NY attorney general to probe Facebook over unauthorised collection of emai
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], Apr 26 (ANI): The New York state attorney general's office will investigate Facebook for its alleged unauthorised collection of 1.5 million users' email contact database.
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Pirated streaming apps, devices steal user data, study reveals
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [USA], April 25 (ANI): In the race to be among the first to watch the new episode of a popular online series, or simply to cut down on the cost of purchasing a legit streaming app or device, users are exposing themselves to malicious software, a new study has revealed.
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Google reports surge in police requests on mobile location data
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Apr 15 (ANI): As technology becomes indispensable and more data is put out on the web, law enforcement agencies have also started to first see smartphones and web activity to gather evidence.
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Internet Explorer bug allows hackers to steal data even if browser is not
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Apr 15 (ANI): A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer which allows hackers to potentially steal user data even if they don't use the browser.
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Unprotected Facebook user data exposed in latest leaks
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Apr 4 (ANI): Another day, another data leak involving Facebook. Cybersecurity firm UpGuard discovered two troves of unprotected Facebook user data on Amazon's servers, putting to risk hundreds of millions of records about users.
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