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04 Mar 2023

International Women's Day: 5 Safety Tips On WhatsApp For Female Against Abuse

Keeping in line with this year’s theme for International Women’s Day, ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’, which will be marked on March 8, here are WhatsApp’s top privacy features that help build a private, safe and inclusive messaging experience for everyone, especially women in today’s digitally connected world.

15 Nov 2022

WhatsApp Tips: Five smart WhatsApp privacy hacks to keep your chats safe

WhatsApp has made day-to-day chats as easy as pie. WhatsApp has over 500 million active users in India and the instant messaging app has been coming with several new features to enrich the user experience and simplify many existing features. WhatsApp chats are already end-to-end encrypted, which means, no third person can see your individual or group chats. "Conversations in end-to-end encrypted chats are clearly labelled with a gold message; these messages and calls stay between users, and no one else can read or listen to its content, not even WhatsApp," reads the privacy page of the WhatsApp blog. However, if you are concerned about your chat's privacy, you can follow these five tips:

Facebook Messanger

17 Aug 2022

Step-by-step guide to enable end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger has option to open end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption is a state-of-the-art tool to hide personal messages and information from the hackers. The company plans to make end-to-end encryption a default setting on the platform till then users can turn it on manually.

13 Aug 2022

Apple and Meta once planning to build businesses together: Report

Apple, Meta once intended to build businesses together: Report Apple and Meta discussed to create ad-free, subscription based Facebook Tech giants couldn't reach consensus on a deal took place between 2016 and 2018

27 Jun 2022

How the Privacy Pundits got this one wrong, and the consumer expectation

The cry is getting louder and louder. Evil Tech Giants! Creepy Surveillance! Google knows everything about us! Facebook is snooping on us! They listen to everything! Google Pizza! They are evil! We have lost our Digital Privacy! Let’s get regulations in! Let’s break them up! Louder! Louder!

22 Feb 2022

Govt unveils Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022

Policy document in consultation with various stakeholders. Draft policy put up for public consultation. Last date of feedback is March 18, 2022.

21 Feb 2022

Smartphones may reveal your identity, breaching privacy: Study

The researchers then tested whether models could identify an individual when provided with only a single day of smartphone activity that was anonymous and not yet paired with a user.

Reverse Email Lookup

11 Nov 2021

Reverse Email Lookup - The Ultimate Guide in 2021

One of the crucial points about choosing the application is also the privacy factor. Read the privacy guidelines and terms before indulging in the usage of any application.

19 Aug 2021

Twitter updated Privacy Policy effective from today: Here are 5 quick points

Privacy Policy effective from today. Twitter gives you control through your settings to limit the data.. Know how Twitter collects or process your personal data.

30 Jun 2021

DNA: Google confesses, 'spying' on people

In this segment of DNA, we will tell you how Google is breaching people's privacy by listening to their conversations. We will also tell you about the methods Google uses to accomplish this work.

07 May 2021

Facebook users, here’s how to find who is stalking your profile

There are two ways using which you can find which friends are stalking your Facebook profile. However, one of the options is limited to only iOS users of the Facebook app. Facebook hasn’t officially even revealed when or if it’s planning to bring the feature for Android customers.

29 Jan 2021

These location tracking apps have been downloaded for billion times

The ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab has identified location tracker SDKs in 450 different apps that have been downloaded at least 1.7 billion times. These 450 apps belong to a wider range of categories like travel, tourism, food apps, health, and fitness. Recently, WhatsApp got embroiled in a huge controversy over its privacy policies, and that eventually led to a major shift in its user base to apps like Signal and Telegram.

15 Jan 2021

DNA: How will you avoid the data trap of tech companies?

In this section of DNA, we will do a DNA test of postcard-like privacy. Also, show you how Google has your entire history.

13 Jan 2021

DNA: Will Signal and Telegram replace WhatsApp?

In this segment of DNA, we will analyse the ‘dictatorial behaviour’ of social media. We will also understand why these companies make different rules for different countries.

09 Nov 2020

BigBasket customer, did you shop on this day in Oct? Data breach reported

BigBasket funded by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba group. Cyble claimed data breach at BigBasket. BigBasket provides services in 25 cities.

09 Sep 2020

Google rolls out Android 11 new privacy controls, powerful tools

Android 11 will begin rolling out on select phones. Android will now auto-reset permissions for your unused apps. Android 11 also brings the privacy protections to your company-owned device.

23 Jul 2020

Facebook Messenger introduces App Lock, new privacy controls

App Lock adds another layer of security to private messages. The optional feature gives users "confidence to know that if a friend or family member needs to borrow your phone, they won't be able to access your chats". App Lock, present in the new Privacy settings section, will use device's privacy settings like fingerprint or face authentication to unlock the Messenger app.

21 Jul 2020

Hacker made $1.5mn by selling backdoor access of 135 top firms

The hacker goes by the name fxmsp. Hacker turned out to be Andrey A Turchin from Almaty, Kazakhstan. His most lucrative period of selling backdoor access was from August to November 2018.

15 Jul 2020

Data of 142 million MGM hotel guests selling on Dark Web for Rs 2 lakh

The hacking came to light in February this year. The hacker obtained the data after breaking into DataViper. The leaked personal details included full names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails and dates of birth of high-profile guests.

01 Jul 2020

Google brings privacy protections to company-owned devices

Googe said, in Android 11, it its bringing privacy protections to company-owned devices as well, while providing IT the additional capabilities needed to manage company assets.

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