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Users Privacy with Google and Apple

Google and Apple have stopped snooping on users conversations

After facing flak, tech giants Google and Apple have now stopped snooping on users’ conversations. While Apple has suspended the program that let its virtual assistant Siri listen to users’ recordings for “quality control”, Google has stopped listening and transcribing Google Assistant recordings in Europe.

Twitter #Tweetups: Global Conversations with Shared Studios

Twitter, in Partnership With Shared Studios, Launches #Tweetups to Strengthen Global Conversations

To highlight the strength of conversations, micro-blogging app Twitter on Tuesday launched a #TweetUp in partnership with Shared Studios an organization that connects people through videos.

Impact of E-mail attacks to IT professionals

E-mail attacks giving sleepless night to IT professionals

Email attacks like phishing and ransomware are having a major impact on businesses globally, with over three-quarters of organizations saying their employees aren’t good at spotting suspicious emails, a new report has stressed.

Tech collaboration between Waymo and DeepMind

Waymo, DeepMind collaborate to improve self-driving cars

Alphabet’s autonomous driving and robotaxi company Waymo does a lot of training in order to refine and improve the artificial intelligence that powers its self-driving software. Recently, it teamed up with fellow Alphabet company and AI specialist DeepMind to develop new training methods that would help make its training better and more efficient.

Chandrayaan 2 Third Orbit Raising Activity

ISRO Performs Third Orbit Raising Activity For Chandrayaan-2 Successfully

Chandrayaan-2: Third Orbit-Raising Activity Completed Successfully India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The third orbit raising activity for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully at 3.12 p.m. on Monday, the Indian space agency said. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the orbit of the Chandrayaan-2 was raised to 276 x 71,792 km by firing the onboard motors for 989 seconds. All spacecraft parameters are normal, it said.

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button

Websites using Facebook’s ‘Like’ button liable for data: EU court

Europe’s top court on Monday said websites using Facebook “Like” button are liable for data as “Like” button plugins can transmit data back to Facebook even if they don’t click on those buttons. The operator of a website that features a Facebook ‘Like’ button can be a controller jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission to Facebook of the personal data of visitors to its website,” said the Court of Justice of European Union (ECJ) in its ruling.

Microsoft's acquisition of BlueTalon

BlueTalon Data Privacy Firm Acquired By Microsoft

Microsoft has acquired a data privacy and governance service called BlueTalon. BlueTalon helps companies determine and set up policies for data access by employees. It then handles the enforcement of those policies and has tools for access and oversight.

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