Google rebrands Google Research as Google AI and acquires Velostrata
Google, a business subsidiary of Alphabet Inc has made a bold move early this week by re-branding its entire Google Research division as Google AI. Industry analysts feel that the move specifies Google’s future vision of aggressively pursuing the developments in the ever-evolving field of Artificial Intelligence. In the next few years, Google has announced […]
Google keeps a record of its users 10 years web browsing history
We all know that Google, the internet juggernaut has been spying on its users from the past few years. But have you ever imagined that the web search giant keeps a record of what you have browsed in the past 10 years? Yes, this happens to be true and was proved in a secret operation […]
Facebook, Microsoft, and Dell sign Cyber Attack pledge
Microsoft, Facebook, Dell and 37 other companies operating in the United States have signed a Cyber Attack pact pledging not to assist offensive government cyber attacks. That means, even if the government of United States desires to launch cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of its enemy nations ( like Russia, China, and North Korea), […]
Facebook alleges Google, Twitter and Amazon also harvest user data
Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal seems to have started a blame game. In a recent blog post put on the company’s official blog the social media giant has pointed fingers at Google, Amazon and Twitter for using data collection tactics as it does. Furthermore the worlds leading social networking website said that Google […]
Google to offer Self Destructing Email service
Google is all set to soon revamp its ‘Gmail’ service and will probably be offering innovative security tools such as self-destructing emails to messages which will expire after a certain period after delivery. Also, Gmail users will get ‘smart reply’ services allowing users to select automatic responses such as “Thank You” to relevant emails and […]
YouTube to face a billion dollar fine for collecting data of Children under 13
If the probe conducted by the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) turns positive, then Google video streaming service YouTube can face a billion dollar fine for collecting data of children under 13. On further going into the details, Google subsidiary YouTube is being accused of violating the data privacy laws related to children under the age of […]
Facebook data privacy concerns deteriorate with Brexit Campaign Exposure
Cambridge Analytica is said to have used the data of over 50 million Facebook users to help US President Donald Trump win the US 2016 Polls. Now, the latest is that the company is said to have helped the official campaign backing Britain’s exit from the European Union by having access to data collected inappropriately […]
Google offers DDoS protection to its Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Customers
Google has launched a new tool named VPC Service Controls for protecting API based services on its Cloud and G-Suite Platforms. The objective of the service is simple to prevent hackers from exfiltrating data from the said platforms. And as far as DDoS attacks are concerned, Google is offering a service named Cloud Armor to […]
US law enforcement trouble to Google location data sharing users
All those Android users who have permitted Google to have access to their location data could land into legal trouble if something goes wrong in their Home or Office vicinity. Yes, you’ve read it right! Law enforcement in the United States is nowadays said to be tracking criminals based on their location data. This includes […]
Google to announces a new operating system named Fuchsia
Google released a press statement yesterday saying it is going to soon replace the name of its ‘Android Wear’ with ‘Wear OS by Google’. The reason, the web search giant feels that the latest name better reflects the technology, vision and most important of all- the people who wear watches. Now, the other news which […]
