Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
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Twitter will inform users of government data requests and in some cases reject them to protect the privacy of users, its chief executive said Wednesday. Dick Costolo, appearing at a forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, ...
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Microsoft is seeking permission to disclose "aggregate statistics" about the number of requests for data it receives under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, following a similar move by Google earlier this month. FISA has ...
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper ...
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Search engine DuckDuckGo, which allows users to search the web anonymously – crowdsourcing its results from other sites such as Wikipedia – has achieved a new benchmark of three million direct searches in a single day. The ...
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Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, ...
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Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday. Some of those investigations might have ...
Following the leaking of a court order that showed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been harvesting mobile phone call data from the carrier Verizon (and possibly others too), new revelations by The Washington Post claim that ...
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Norwegian operator Telenor will use special software to ensure that all personal and sensitive content is deleted from smartphones and tablets handed in by users for recycling, a change it hopes will result in fewer customers holding on to ...
Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure. Services for storing and sharing content in the cloud started in the consumer ...
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Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other ...
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A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can't get to the information -- even if the government requests access. And in recent years there have been ...
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Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of illegally collecting, and allowing others to collect, extensive amounts of mobile user data ...
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Washington's biggest problem when it comes to Bitcoin may just be that policymakers on the Hill don't know enough about it, yet. That was the general consensus of a panel of legal experts speaking Saturday at a Silicon Valley conference ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue". In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed ...
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