Facebook and Google may not be alone in their pivotal plans to beam the Internet to the rest of the offline world, because Microsoft has just announced a new initiative meant to pump huge cash into startups to develop services that will connect the more than four billion people who are still disconnected.
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Was Facebook’s Safety Check amid Paris attacks selective in nature?
Facebook and other media platforms received widespread criticism in the wake of the Paris terror attacks because of the supposed selective humanity that they have shown during the inhumane violence.
What we can learn from the recent Comcast password sale incident
First, it should be noted that the customer passwords at Comcast that were placed for sale did not result from a data breach into Comcast’s networks. It was the product of recklessness on the part of users who gave up their passwords to hackers through some deceptive means.
New ransomware locks out website owners
The modern day technology landscape where various advanced and persistent threats abound calls for robust security tools, one which being encryption. But what will you do when the same security is used to your disadvantage?
To protect your data from US government spies, Microsoft hosts data in Germany
Amid the United States government’s effort to gain backdoor access to encrypted data of American citizens, Microsoft has moved to help beef up the security and privacy of at least its European customers and users by moving its data center service to Germany, where the government gives importance to data privacy.
See how you can manage your privacy online with Google’s About Me
In an effort to help its more than a billion users to manage their privacy while online, Google has just rolled out a new tool dubbed About Me, which allows users to control what information about them will appear in any of Google’s services.
