Data Breach
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Google allows third-party developers to scan your Gmail: Report
Internet | Jul 03, 2018, 11:05 AM ISTAccording to Google, it provides data only to outside developers it has vetted and to whom users have explicitly granted permission to access email.
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Amid data privacy scandal, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum quits Facebook
Technology | May 01, 2018, 10:29 AM ISTIn a post on his Facebook page, Koum said that he is taking time off to pursue interests such as collecting air-cooled Porsches, working on cars and playing ultimate Frisbee.
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Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher in 2015: Report
Technology | Apr 30, 2018, 12:03 PM ISTThe report says that Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then a psychology researcher with University of Cambridge and his company Global Science Research (GSR).
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Third-party trackers abusing 'Facebook Login' to steal users' data: Report
Internet | Apr 19, 2018, 11:07 AM ISTThe researchers found two types of vulnerabilities: Seven third parties abusing websites' access to Facebook user data and one third party using its own Facebook "application" to track users around the web.
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Facebook clarifies how it collects data when you're logged out
Technology | Apr 17, 2018, 11:28 AM ISTFacebook is embroiled in a widening scandal that a British data firm called Cambridge Analytica improperly gathered detailed information on its 87 million users.
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Chip in your set-top box? Congress accuses BJP of breaching people's privacy
National | Apr 16, 2018, 05:21 PM ISTThe Information and Broadcasting Ministry has reportedly told the TRAI that the step had been taken to provide data about channels watched and their duration which would help advertisers.
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Full Text: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to US Congress on data breach
Internet | Apr 11, 2018, 03:04 PM ISTZuckerberg, facing a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees, expressed his willingness to ensure protection of integrity of elections across world.
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At US senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg says 'will ensure safe elections in India'
World | Apr 11, 2018, 11:02 AM ISTZuckerberg also expressed regret that his company was slow in identifying the Russian operations in 2016, which allegedly benefitted Donald Trump.
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Facebook to connect with 87 million users hit by data breach
Technology | Apr 09, 2018, 10:26 AM ISTApart from those affected, over 2 billion Facebook users will also see a link "at the top of their news feed so they can see what apps they use and the information they have shared".
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Data row: US-based analytics firm says it doesn't 'sell, rent' data from NaMo app
National | Mar 27, 2018, 01:03 PM ISTThe researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, in a series of tweets, pointed the privacy lapses in the NaMO App and alleged that mobile marketing platform CleverTap was the beneficiary of the data transfer.
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Data row: Rahul accuses PM Modi of misusing NaMo app, BJP calls him 'technologically illiterate'
India | Mar 27, 2018, 07:42 AM ISTThe Congress had to take down its ‘WithINC' mobile app after the BJP alleged that the party had shared user data with a Singapore-based firm from its official app.
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Data breach row: BJP accuses Rahul Gandhi of ‘technological illiteracy’
India | Mar 26, 2018, 07:12 PM ISTLaunching a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the Congress president was rattled after his plan to influence the next Lok Sabha election with the help of Cambridge Analytica was “exposed”.
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Data row: Has your team deleted Congress app instead of NaMo app, Smriti Irani asks Rahul
National | Mar 26, 2018, 01:09 PM ISTThe war of words, started with Congress campaign #DeleteNaMoApp, heated up on Monday on both sides as Rahul Gandhi also tweeted further accusations.
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Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook privacy scandal in full page newspaper ads in UK
World | Mar 25, 2018, 04:51 PM IST"We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't we don't deserve it," the ad read.
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Facebook data breach: Govt issues notice to Cambridge Analytica, asks to respond by March 31
India | Mar 23, 2018, 09:33 PM ISTThe notice came after reports that political parties had used the data analytics firm during elections.
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Congress had a close tie-up with Cambridge Analytica, says Union Min. Ravi Shankar Prasad
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FB data breach: Cong denies charges, says BJP used firm's services during assembly polls
National | Mar 21, 2018, 09:17 PM ISTCongress communications incharge Randeep Surjewala said that it was the BJP which hired the services of the controversial firm during Bihar and Gujarat elections.
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Data breach is like honeytrap, Rahul Gandhi should be ready for questioning, says BJP
News | Mar 21, 2018, 07:47 PM IST