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Spotify’s CEO Clarifies New Privacy Policy After Controversy
Spotify’s updated terms and conditions page has caused outrage amongst users and resulted in a number of high profile individuals to cancel their membership. To access the Spotify streaming service, you need to accept a privacy policy which allows the company access to sensitive data including pictures, videos, messages and contact numbers. The…
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Drone Munition Now Available To Consumers
Picture the scene; you look skywards and what lies before you? Some morons drone which is circling above your house, what do you do? If you live in the good old US of A, you walk into your garage with the aim of fetching your shotgun or course. But there…
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Google Could Begin Searching Your Desktop’s Local Files
Google has recently filed a patent listing with the USPTO entitled, “Computer Application Data in Search Results” which catalogues search results across the internet, cloud and local storage. This means Google will be able to search through your data and act as a unified search engine. The patent is engineered to replace Windows’…
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Facebook Revoked Internship for Exposing Privacy Loophole
Facebook has axed a Harvard student called Aran Khanna, who was about to start an internship after he publicly exposed a privacy flaw within Facebook Messenger. Khanna discovered each message contained data pinpointing the sender’s location and created an app allow users to track their friends’ whereabouts. Instead of keeping this private, he…
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Twitter Personal Information Requests Double In UK
The UK Government has made more than double the amount of requests about citizen’s data on Twitter compared to six months ago. Twitter’s open ethos means the company publishes a “Transparency Report” about the number of requests they receive globally. The information requests between January and July dramatically increased from…
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How To Turn Bing System Web Results Off in windows 10
Windows 10 with Cortana has been received with mixed reactions due to certain bugs and privacy issues, but users have also found another annoying feature which integrates with a system file search. If you would like to search for something in particular which does not directly match a system setting…
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New Tool Challenges Windows 10 Privacy Issues
So far the brand spanking new Windows 10 OS has been a huge success compared to the mishmash that was Windows 8, which tried to do its best to annoy consumers with the deletion of the Start Menu in favour of Metro. The default option for privacy on the other…
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New Free App Will Stop Windows 10 From Spying on You
It has been a week since the full release of Windows 10, and the general consensus has been largely positive, but with special exception given to its rather intrusive approach to privacy. Windows 10 collects your data, stores your data, and sells your data. Not your personal files, but your…
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Treason Investigation For Netzpolitik.org Paused In Germany
Secrecy and news. These things are against odds in recent years with the public being aware of just how much we do not know courtesy of the Snowden leaks. In Germany, there is an investigation into the digital rights news site Netzpolitik.org, or rather two journalists, who are charged with…
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Man Shoots Down Expensive Drone
Drones may be the future, but owners certainly need to take a bit more responsibility while flying them if this tale is anything to go by. A gentleman by the name of William H. Merideth looked skyward and noticed a Drone was flying over his property, so he acted the…
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The Privacy Question Of Windows 10
Windows 10 is out as of today (Wednesday 29th July 2015) and on the surface is a major improvement over the much maligned Windows 8. This should be excellent news for consumers, which it is to a large extent, but what is lurking under the hood in terms of privacy?…
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Speaks Out About Encryption Backdoors
While some governments are trying to ban end-to-end encryption or insert backdoors into encrypted systems, a prominent yet unexpected voice has spoken out in support of protecting people’s privacy. Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security under the Bush administration from 2005 to 2009, told an audience at the…
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No Privacy For Posterior Pocket Diallers
Is this really a thing? Apparently so according to a ruling which states that anyone who Pocket dials someone with their leg or any other anatomy part does not have either an expected or legal right to privacy. If you’re wondering where American tax dollars are being funnelled to, then…
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Google Photos App Continues to Sync Photos After Uninstall
One might think that an application would stop with the uploading and synchronizing of files when you uninstall it, but not so with the Google Photos App as David Arnott, a journalist at Nashville Business Journal, recently discovered. After downloading and testing the Google Photos App, he decided that it wasn’t for…
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David Cameron Plans to Ban WhatsApp
Since Edward Snowden spilled the beans on how government agencies spy on us, a lot of companies took precautions in preserving users’ privacy when using their apps. But it seems that will be made illegal and such apps look to be banned in the future, at least in the UK,…
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