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The NSA Is Collecting Your Email And Messaging Contacts, In Addition To The Messages
We already know the NSA collect electronic data on almost every aspect of people’s life, whether that data collection is justified or even legal is a another debate altogether. The latest revelation from the Washington Post suggests that the they also collect your address books and contact lists in many…
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‘ScareMail’ Browser Extension Seeks To Confuse And Overload NSA Monitoring Systems
Benjamin Grosser, a software developer from Illinois, has developed something he has called Scaremail – a browser extension he claims will foil, or at least damage, the NSA’s surveillance attempts. By now we all know that the NSA actively monitors all emails and online chats in the USA and across…
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Google Web Traffic Accounts For 5% Of All Internet Traffic In The UK
Google is a large part of the internet, but really how large is it? According to The Telegraph, Google websites are over 5 percent of web traffic in the UK, in short 1 out of every 20 websites visited are Google-owned. Google Chrome, Google’s web browser turned 5 years old…
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Cue Acquired By Apple To Take On Google
It is nothing new for Apple to acquire new companies, therefore personal assistant ‘Cue’ is the latest “victim” that the Cupertino giant has targeted, and this is to be good news for iOS users. The good news comes is due to many of the features offered by ‘Cue’ mimic those of…
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Google Faces Fresh New Lawsuit Over Gmail Scanning Saga
The Herald Sun reports that Google is facing another lawsuit because of the way it scans the content of emails received by its Gmail users. Google does this so that it may more effectively calculate and target which advertisements to place in that person’s inbox and around that person’s Google…
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Microsoft Apologises For Outlook.com Outage
After days of intermittent problems with the Outlook.com service Microsoft has made a public apology for the mayhem to their free online email client. The message on its service status page described the most recent problems as caused by a glitch in the caching service which is why the status…
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Google Says Its Gmail Users Have No “Legitimate Expectation” Of Privacy
According to information obtained at RT.com Google has stated that it thinks its users should never expect data privacy for their emails. The Information that was spotted by the Consumer Watchdog was used by Google to challenge an ongoing litigation. In that litigation Google used an argument that Gmail users…
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Microsoft Attacks Gmail Again With A New Video As Part Of “Scroogled” Campaign
Microsoft has rekindled its Scroogled campaign this time producing a new video to attack Google’s Gmail email service. The new video, seen below, shows how Google manages to successfully implement adverts into your inbox by disguising them as emails. Microsoft says that Google scans through your inbox for keywords and…
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Google Integrates Wallet Service Into Gmail
Google has certainly been busy of late with a huge flurry of announcements made at its Google I/O press event. The latest feature which caught my eye was the fact Google are integrating their Google Wallet service into Google Mail. Essentially what this will allow is for people to send…
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Microsoft’s New ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Attempts To Strike Fear Over Android Users
Microsoft is working very hard not only to match with Google’s existing offerings by planning to implement an 2-step authentication, but also have been directly attacking Google’s Gmail and Google Shopping services by saying that Google’s policy allows them to use the name, email addresses and neighborhood’s details who purchase…
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Gmail’s New Compose Feature Will Be The Standard Soon
Last year, back in October, Google announced a new way to compose e-mails on Gmail. It was very much like a Facebook chat, where-as it appears at the bottom of the page as tabs. When it launched, you could preview it or choose to not even bother with it. At…
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