India has decided to retain its ban on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps after reviewing responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told local news channel on Tuesday. When it first imposed the ban in June, India’s ministry of electronics […]
Samsung galaxy s21 ultra is the latest iteration to the ultra-line-up after the S20 ultra and Note 20 ultra The s20 ultra failed to live up to its name. With a hefty price tag and camera issues being prominent now and then along with the Exynos chipset which performed quite poorly compared to Snapdragon. It […]
Recently, WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy which has caused some serious fire. As a result, due to privacy issues and misunderstandings, many users started shifting towards Telegram and Signal. In the latest Privacy Policy WhatsApp declares how it is a part of Facebook Companies and talks about collecting and sharing information. In addition, it […]
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a privacy-preserving technology that enables computational workloads to be performed directly on encrypted data. HE enables secure remote computation, as cloud service providers can compute on data without viewing highly sensitive content. But despite its appeal, performance and programmability challenges remain a barrier to HE’s widespread adoption. Realizing the potential of […]
WhatsApp recently updated its Privacy Policy, which lead to quite some rumors. However these were just mere rumors and people did not misinterpreted them; which resulted in the loss of WhatsApp itself. WhatsApp Privacy Policy In the latest Privacy Policy WhatsApp declares how it is a part of Facebook Companies and talks about collecting and […]
Google has threatened to block Australian users from accessing its search service; unless the government changes proposed legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. Google Australia Managing Director Mel Silva told a senate committee in Canberra on Friday; that if the current draft media laws went ahead unchanged; it would […]
Another popular Muslim prayer smartphone application is tracking the location of its users and selling data; that ends up in the hands of the US government, said a media report. Salaat First, an app that reminds Muslims when to pray, was recording and selling location data of its users; according to Motherboard, an online magazine […]
WhatsApp is battling mistrust globally after it updated its privacy policy to let it share some user data with parent Facebook and other group firms, and the backlash risks thwarting its ambitions in its biggest market, India. Though WhatsApp has yet to see mass uninstalls of its app in India; users concerned about privacy are […]
Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday provides the earliest evidence of human settlement in the region. Co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia’s Griffith University told the […]
Amid row over reports of WhatsApp users alleging leak of their private messages with family and friends on search engines, the Facebook-owned messaging service has issued yet another clarification. However, WhatsApp has said the change in its recently revised policy “does not affect the privacy of messages with friends or family”. “Instead, this update includes […]
