Yahoo will encrypt all users personal data by March next year, the web firm's CEO Marissa Mayer has said. Yahoo, along with other web firms including Apple, Microsoft and Google, have been subject to thousands of data requests under the ...
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) launched the e-learning edition of its SmartDriver for Highway Trucking in 2011, and is now redeveloping the learning materials, with the support and guidance of numerous trucking industry stakeholders, to ...
Apple have revealed the amount of user information that governments have requested from the California giant, as it?sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Apple ...
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New tool makes field calculations faster and easier says supplier Rain for Rent, the US-based provider of temporary liquid handling solutions and rental pumps, has launched RiteFlo, a free app that offers a 'comprehensive suite of ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...
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Facebook and Yahoo have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for permission to publish details of national security requests they receive from the US government for user data. In a policy statement on Tumblr, Yahoo's ...
The US government made 12,444 requests for data about 40,322 Yahoo users, the web firm has revealed in its first annual transparency report. The report marks a more detailed account of what world governments have requested from Yahoo, ...
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Yahoo received more than 30,000 requests from seventeen different countries around the world for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in more than 25,000 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency ...
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said on Friday that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security ...
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Governments requested information about 38,000 Facebook users in the first six months of this year the social network has revealed. Facebook's Global Government Requests Report comes after the social network revealed it received 10,000 ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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Government requests to Twitter to reveal private information about users has rocketed by 40 per cent in the first six months of this year, the social media company has revealed as part of its bi-annual transparency report. The report, ...
The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened to fine Google, if the web giant doesn't make its privacy policy clearer by September. Failure to provide information about how it uses and stores user data could see Google fined ...
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Google is revealing some new numbers around malware and phishing attempts in an effort to get more people thinking about online security and to make the Web safer. The data is being incorporated into the company's biannual transparency ...
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