Tag: requests
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How to Stop Facebook App Game Requests
Probably the biggest grievance for those living their online social life through Facebook is those annoying game requests. Regularly you’ll be excited to open a new notification presuming someone has liked your latest meal photo only to find it’s just spam from a mate who wants you to join them in Candy Crush or help them…
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Twitter Reports New Raise In Data Requests
Ever since 2012, microblogging social media site twitter has been releasing transparency reports on how many requests governments and law enforcement agencies have made to the site in order to obtain data on users posting on the social network. the reports have been going up and up for a while now, as social media is…
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Govt. Data Requests To Facebook Rise
Another chapter in the landmark debate of ‘privacy vs. national security’ is unfolding as we speak – as Facebook have reported a massive spike in government interest in the information stored on their servers. It’s completely legal and proper for a government, in countries such as the UK or US, to request information from Facebook…
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Twitter Suing US Govt. Over Data Requests
The internet is becoming more and more entangled with government snooping and government data requests than ever before, with major companies such as Google and Microsoft being asked to hand over sensitive personal information about or created by people suspected of crimes or other misdemeanour’s. However, back in January both Microsoft and Google won a…
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Android L To Encrypt Data As Standard
In the face of the revealing of NSA hacking by Edward Snowden, plus other major evidence of spying from large government agencies operating inside the United States, Google has announced that any and all data stored within the Android L operating system, set for release in 2015, will be encrypted to hopefully prevent government spying.…
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Google Facing 41,000 Right to be Forgotten Requests
The controversial and incredibly bold ‘Right to be Forgotten’ ruling, imposed by the European Union in the last few weeks, has been the target of both heavy criticism and rabid public interest in the short period following its launch. The ruling, inspired by the decision to remove search engine links to material deemed in breach…