Category Archives: Privacy

When you pick up a glass of water…

Next time when you pick up a glass of water in some body’s place, be careful, your finger print could be picked out of the glass and used to impersonate you. Social engineering attacks in future may therefore start with … Continue reading

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e-authentication framework for Government projects

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, GOI (DeitY) has released a document called “e-Pramaan: Framework for e-Authentication”. This is intended to serve as the guiding document for all Central and State Ministries, departments and government agencies for implementing an … Continue reading

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Facebook to introduce “Paid Message Delivery”

Facebook has started an test for delivering messages to Facebook users from people other than public against payment of money. Refer here I see an advantage in the service to deliver legal notices to the Facebook users who might have … Continue reading

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Instagram service rules changed

Instagram is a service which is supposed to make sharing of mobile pictures on Social networking sites easy. However the privacy rules attached to the service had raised a ruckus recently as it was felt that the private photographs shared … Continue reading

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“Photo Sync” from Facebook-A New Threat to Privacy

Dec 4: Facebook has introduced a new feature called “Photo Sync” for mobile users which is likely to be a new threat to privacy to casual users. If enabled, the feature will automatically upload the photographs from the mobile to Face … Continue reading

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Julian Assange on Internet Freedom

Dec 3: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange speaks of how an infrastructure for total control of Internet is already in place and is beig also used partially. … Details

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