Privacy
Privacy Alert- Google Home or Amazon Echo could leak your bank details to hackers
Electronic assistants such as Google Home or Amazon Echo could leak your personal details such as bank info to hackers, say security experts. As the said devices are brought to life by voice commands, the feature can pose a major security risk, as they are always listening to your private conversations. This in-turn can pose […]
Privacy Alert- Data from Google Maps is being shared with third-party servers
Are you an avid fan of Google Maps? And do you use the app for all your day to day transit and shopping needs? Then there is a high probability that all your personal data such as your destination from where you have started and where you’ve visited can be shared with third party servers […]
Never reveal your social media passwords to Trump Administration
As the new US Visa policies roll in from this month, the Trump Administration is planning to put some foreign applicants through a stringent screening test which can be referred as a ‘privacy invasion’. And as a part of this policy, the US State Department wants to review all social media activities, email addresses and […]
IoT: Usability Dream or Privacy Nightmare?
Javvad Malik wrote an interesting post about IoT: Usability Dream or Privacy Nightmare? that I would like to share. “Probably the best £100 I’ve ever spent was on a Nest Protect. It’s awesome. In a nutshell, it’s a Wi-Fi enabled smoke and carbon dioxide detector. My “dumb” one worked just as well but this one has […]
