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320, 000 Us Data Queries in 2013 Is Revealed by Verizon
Jan 22, 2014Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report," and said it received 320,000 data queries last year in the United States alone. Verizon also said it received between 1,000 and 2,000 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer Have Both Commented on The NSA Prism Revelations
Sep 13, 2013Facebook 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. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Facebook and Yahoo Asked FISC for Permission to Publish Details of Security Requests
Sep 11, 2013Facebook 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 ...
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The US Government Made 12,444 Requests for Data About 40,322 Yahoo Users
Sep 10, 2013The 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, ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Yahoo Received More Than 30,000 Requests From Seventeen Different Countries
Sep 9, 2013Yahoo 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 ...
Tags: Yahoo, Data Requests
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Government Requests to Twitter to Reveal Private Information About Users
Aug 6, 2013Government 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, ...
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Google Is Revealing Some New Numbers Around Malware and Phishing Attempts in an Effort
Jun 27, 2013Google 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 ...
Tags: Google, Malware, Transparency, Web safer
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Google Has Challenged The US Government's Gag Order on Tech Firms
Jun 19, 2013Google has challenged the US government's gag order on tech firms which have been the focal point of US security investigations. The search giant wants the approval for greater transparency from the US courts, stating that it believes it ...
Tags: Google, US Government
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Yahoo Has Received Between 12,000 to 13,000 Requests for User Data
Jun 18, 2013Yahoo 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, ...
Tags: Yahoo, User Data, Law Enforcement Agencies
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Donations Have Been Declining Substantially Over The Last Two Years
May 24, 2013Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
Tags: Computer Products
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Syria Suffered Another Internet and Mobile Communications Outage That Lasted for 20 Hours
May 10, 2013Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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OpenDNS Resolvers Saw a Significant Drop in Traffic From Syria
May 9, 2013Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.? At around 18:45 GMT Tuesday, "OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has ...
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Google Has Received to Remove Certain Types of Content
Apr 28, 2013The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday. For the period between ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, software
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Google Released Data Showing That Requests by Governments
Apr 27, 2013GOOGLE has released data showing that requests by governments to censor the internet giant's content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way. Google received 2285 government requests to remove content from ...
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Google Users Have Been Subject to FBI Security Information Requests Since 2009
Mar 7, 2013Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests. The new figures look at the number ...