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Facebook will now require third party applications to be transparent in the kind of data they want to access and to ask users for consent before any information is shared.
The move was in response to the clamor from privacy advocates for Facebook to improve its security mechanisms to protect users. Last month, Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s [...]
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The U.S. ranks 28th globally in terms of average Internet connection speed and it will take 15 years before it can measure up to Korean standards, according to a report released by the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
The CWA report said the U.S. is not making significant improvement in building high-speed network, its average download [...]
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Security vendor Symantec has revealed the top 100 dirtiest or “worst of the worst” sites on the web based on the number of security threats detected by its website ratings service Norton Safe Web.
Not surprisingly, nearly half of these websites, or 48 percent, use porn to lure users to the infected pages. What’s rather unexpected, [...]
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