Online Privacy

Australia's online safety watchdog has issued a legal notice to Twitter demanding an explanation of what the social media giant is doing to tackle a surge in online hate since Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought the platform. Australia's eSafety Commission describes itself as the world's first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer online. The agency said Thursday that it received more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past 12 months than any other platform and had received an increasing number of reports of serious online abuse since Musk took over the company in October. The Australian agency's boss, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, said she sent a notice to the San Francisco-based company Wednesday with 36 detailed questions on how Twitter's policies about hateful conduct are enforced. If Twitter does not respond with factual and truthful responses to all questions within 28 days, an Australian judge could fine the company up to 700,000 Australian dollars

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is facing a server-side issue, making it impossible to update the privacy setting "who can see when I'm online," globally on iOS

From India, more than 6 million WhatsApp users could be at risk, the report said

The volume of ransomware threats detected spiked to more than 1.2 million per month between the January-June period, a report revealed

There is hope that the kids are willing to adopt secured spaces if guided well, said Tsaaro CEO

She was pivotal in helping the company reach an unparalleled scale of more than two billion active users after Zuckerberg poached her from Google in 2008

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A recent survey on data privacy for children found that while parents were aware of data privacy, the majority were not aware of any laws that protect children's data privacy

"This is a issue where we are actively involved with, and actively responding to," the minister said

TikTok representative said privacy and safety were the company's top priorities and that it had robust policies, processes and technologies in place to help protect all users, especially teenage users

Facebook's new tools give its user more control over what they share and see on the social media platform

Amid a raging debate over privacy offered by messaging platforms like WhatsApp, terrorist groups from Pakistan are switching to new applications which include one developed by a Turkish company

The feature, which allows people with a user's phone number to find and connect with that user on Twitter, is off by default for users in the European Union where stringent privacy rules are in place

These changes have been expected for months, but their impact is still unknown

It is learnt that the next meeting could be held in January, after which a report will be submitted

The very technology that sought to maintain the integrity of data is at odds with the laws that endeavours to protect personal data

Pai stressed the need for the government to draw up norms vis-a-vis functioning of such big platforms

The more privacy conscious have to go through the trouble of using encryption for all their messages

Avoid using real personal data and make a separate e-mail address for free apps and services