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Yahoo begins automatic email encryption to thwart govt snooping

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 16:55

Internet giant Yahoo has reportedly started automatic encryption of emails in a bid to thwart government surveillance as revealed in the controversial NSA leaks.

France fines Google over data privacy

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 10:54

France`s data protection watchdog has fined Google 150,000 euros after the U.S. search engine ignored a three-month ultimatum to bring its practices on tracking and storing user information in line with local law.

Don`t intend to make voter registration tool for India: Google

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 10:47

Internet giant Google today said it does not intend to make voter registration tool for India and has only made suggestions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on improving such a tool.

Scientists use Internet to search for time travellers!

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 12:22

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have searched through the Internet to look for any time travellers from the future that may be lurking in our world.

Soon, use physical tokens as passwords for Google, Facebook!

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:38

Google and Facebook are reportedly working on password systems that would involve inserting physical tokens in computers providing better security to users.

Google loses another appeal in Street View privacy row

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 20:07

Google has reportedly lost another appeal in the ongoing Street View privacy row as the court has ruled that the search giant breached federal wiretap laws when collecting user data from unencrypted wireless networks for its mapping program.

Researcher claims hackers can easily hijack `unencrypted` Windows crash reports

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 18:44

Window`s error and crash reporting system is prone to hacking and hackers can use the unencrypted data to refine and pinpoint their attacks, a researcher has revealed.