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The social media platform Telegram will hit one billion users this year, its co-founder Pavel Durov has said in an interview. Offering users mass group chat functions with so-called channels, as well as an emphasis on privacy and encryption, Telegram has 900 million monthly users making it the sixth most used app in the world behind Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and WeChat. "Telegram is spreading like forest fire" and is expected to rise and to hit one billion users in 2024, Durov told the American conservative commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an intervi...
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The EU’s incoming digital identity wallet has sparked claims on social media and by politicians that Brussels intends to strip away citizens’ privacy and exert control over their lives. The wallet, which is still in the pipeline, is an app that will let users store key information like official ID and bank details in a single, secure place. It will allow citizens, residents and businesses to prove their identity to access public and private services across Europe. The European Commission states that the wallet will provide a simple and safe way to control how much information people wish to sh...
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Google has agreed to delete billions of records containing personal information from people in the US who used its Chrome web browser. The purge of information collected from more than 136 million people comes as part of a lawsuit settlement, the details of which emerged in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit from 2020 alleges that Google tracked users' internet activity even when they were in "Incognito" mode. French watchdog imposes a €250 million fine on Google amid dispute with news publishersGoogle vigorously fought the lawsuit until US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected a r...
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By Srinivas Kodali Doosra, a privacy-focused anti-spam app, helped Indians share a disposable secondary mobile number at public places like supermarkets, restaurants or wherever people are uncomfortable in sharing their number to stop spam. Doosra blocks all calls by default, and only allows whitelisted numbers using the settings in their app giving people control. The service has been disrupted over the last few months and the firm announced they are unsure when the services will be available again with the Department of Telecom stopping their licence. Doosra has been unable to provide servic...
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By Scot Finnie How did we get to the point where the tech industry is in the user-data business instead of the tech business? Every day, Google collects data on billions of people worldwide, according to The Regulatory Review. The dodge that users gain some benefit from ad targeting is fallacy. For example, if Google's search were decoupled from its advertising, there would be less chance for users to be misled by ignored search terms and seemingly hard-wired results. There's nothing beneficial to the user about Google's sponsored search results. That's also true of the adjacent Google ads tha...
Computer World
By Elizabeth Montalbano The European Commission (EC) has violated several key data protection rules in its use of Microsoft 365 regarding the transfer of people's personal data from Europe to other regions not covered by EU data-protection laws, a key European privacy watchdog found. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on Tuesday chastized the EC after finding it did not take proper protective measures when sending personal data outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) when using the cloud-based app. In addition, the EC failed to specify in its contract with Microsoft "what t...
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By Jon Gold The European Commission (EC) on Friday said it needs more information from Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta to assess its compliance with applicable privacy and security laws in the European Union (EU). The EC, in a statement, said Meta also needs to speed up its responses to requests in December for information, which centered on election information, terrorism and the protection of minors. The company has until March 15 to provide that information, with the new info about Meta’s pay-to-opt-out-of-tracking program due March 22. The EC noted that, like all companies doing...
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By Jonny Evans Apple is preparing for future threats to iMessage by introducing upgraded encryption for its messaging service by using quantum computers. Think of it as state-of-the-art quantum security for messaging at scale, the company says, resulting in Apple's messaging system being more secure against both current and future foes. What is the protection?Announced on Apple’s Security Research blog, the new iMessage protection is called PQ3 and promises the “strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world.” The rationale behind this protection is “What if?” In...
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By Elizabeth Montalbano The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether TikTok may have breached the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in various ways associated with the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and managing risk for addictive design and harmful content. The formal investigation adds to the privacy and safety concerns that have plagued the video-sharing platform, giving enterprises yet another reason to consider banning its use by employees while they access corporate networks. The Commission had previously ...
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Imagine your friend sent you a private DM on Twitter. Now imagine instead of the content remaining for your eyes only, Twitter let the police also take a peek at it. Such intrusive practices of state actors accessing private messages have grave consequences for our lives. Some people can be physically harmed, and for some, it can mean that their families and friends could get prosecuted. At a collective level, the harm this does to our communities and society at large is immeasurable. Despite this, the European Commission has recently established a new High-Level Group (HLG) tasked with giving...
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