privacy

India’s top court says privacy is a fundamental right

NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy,… Read More

Facebook offers Indian women tools to protect privacy

NEW DELHI: Facebook has introduced new security features for women using the social media platform… Read More

Man imprisoned for blackmailing girls on social media

LAHORE: A sessions court on Tuesday sentenced a man to two years imprisonment and imposed… Read More

Skype, WeChat, Snapchat among least secure messaging apps

Snapchat, Microsoft's Skype and WeChat are placed among the least secure messaging apps and face… Read More

Snowden advises against using Google’s Allo

Google took aim Wednesday at the red-hot mobile messaging market, with a new artificial intelligence-powered… Read More

WhatsApp relaxes privacy stance, to share phone numbers with Facebook

Popular messaging service WhatsApp said it would start sharing users' phone numbers with parent Facebook… Read More

Iran orders social media sites to store data inside country

TEHRAN: Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about… Read More

United States sets out limits on its spying as part of new data pact with EU

WASHINGTON: The United States has set out limits to its use of data collected in… Read More

Google increases user privacy controls

SAN FRANCISCO: Google increased privacy controls for users and rolled out a website on Monday… Read More

In privacy, Americans lack trust in government: poll

WASHINGTON: Americans are worried about the privacy of their online information, and have little confidence… Read More

Health checks by smartphone raise privacy fears

BARCELONA: Authorities and tech developers must stop sensitive health data entered into applications on mobile… Read More

Break up Google: EU lawmakers

BRUSSELS: European Union lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators to break… Read More

Top social media web plots first steps into healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that… Read More

U.S. business lobby concerned over China antitrust probes

BEIJING: Foreign companies are increasingly concerned they are being targeted by Chinese regulators, a U.S.… Read More

Privacy Abuses: Class action against Facebook attracts 60,000 users

VIENNA: An Austrian law student said his class action challenging Facebook for alleged privacy violations… Read More

Google, Bing and Yahoo in trouble as internet privacy issue surges in Europe

PARIS/BRUSSELS: European regulators have not yet decided whether to try to force search engines such… Read More