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Facebook’s new Algorithm powerful enough to identify you even if you aren’t looking at the camera. Facebook’s AI/artificial intelligence lab introduced an algorithm at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference earlier this month that can locate you in a picture with 83% accuracy. The catch is that it can judge your identity even if […]
Patient Records Audio While being Operated- Hears doctors Making Fun of His Penis. You surely wouldn’t expect doctors to laugh at your private parts and joke about your penis that you have Ebola infection when you are lying unconscious during an operation but this actually has happened. A patient known as DB in Reston, Virginia […]
A new photo-sharing application has been released by Facebook this week called Moments. This app utilizes facial recognition technology to tag and sends your pictures from your private camera roll. Facebook’s Product manager Will Ruben writes in his blog post about Facebook Moments App: “Syncing photos with the Moments app is a private way to give […]
In the annual report of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, big players like WhatsApp and AT&T have been ranked worst in protecting your data and privacy. In the annual “Who Has Your Back” scorecard, EFF tells us about the tech companies’ efforts to ensure transparency when it comes to doing a reasonable job to protect you […]
Facebook’s current rival apparently being backed by the famous hacker group Anonymous. A new social network is hoping to surpass Facebook and other prominent social media giants in popularity, which is not news at all. However, the fact that this new social network is being backed by none other than the online hacktivist Anonymous is definitely big […]
Since the last two years, the privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo has witnessed a phenomenal 600% growth. The search engine was launched back in 2008 by Garbiel Weinberg and nobody expected to make any impression on the search market dominated by Google. Now after the seven years of its launch, this Philadelphia-based startup DuckDuckGo has […]
Facebook is in hot water. The social media giant is being taken to court by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC), among accusations that it has violated privacy laws. The BPC has slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s creation for spying on non-users and the tracking system that is being utilised by the company. The main issues are not the tracking […]
So long Password1234 or surname1, there is a new, more readily memorable password system on our doorstep — That is what Intelligent Environments are implying with their new innovation, Emoji Passcode. The British financial services technology firm has created a revolutionary new mobile app that will allow users to create emoji-based passwords, that may be […]
Awesome News for Wikipedia Readers- Encrypted Connections Coming Your Way Pretty Soon. Currently, data between users and Wikipedia.com is unencrypted, and this increases the chances of being spied upon. However, now this scenario will be changed pretty soon. The Wikipedia Foundation announced on Friday that it is going to move its websites towards HTTPS by default […]
We have always heard about negative use of drones or most of the times drones for surveillance purposes. But now two testing centers in Luoyang city of China will use surveillance drones to monitor college entrance exams to prevent students from cheating and smuggling electronic devices inside the center. The entrance test results will determine future of the students and which university […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using aircrafts for its surveillance operations on the ground in the US. The Associated Press exposed startling facts about the mysterious surveillance aircrafts circling over US cities probably for decades. Reportedly, these low-flying planes were part of a civilian air force controlled by the FBI and obscured behind fake companies. […]
Google’s love for contact lenses is never ending. The search engine giant has already done considerable work on contact lenses and their use in health applications. Now, Google has patented a new technology that transforms contact lenses into an identification device. This new technology involves covering all parts of the iris of an eye. The […]
Researchers have spotted a j.mp shortened URL being shared by fake accounts within Facebook recently targeting users with phishing link. Hackers are sending a spam messages from a phony account stating to be “Facebook recovery” notifying users that their accounts committed abuse and will likely be disabled if they don’t act on given commands. After a […]
Creating fake social media accounts has been the favorite trick of hackers and scammers for interacting with potential victims. However, thanks to Google Search now you can identify if such an account is real or fake by searching the profile picture. Users are very much familiar with the scenario where friendship requests are received from […]
It’s a high point for “Biometric technology” as in the latest advancement now. It is possible to record data about an individual’s physical attributes such as fingerprints or iris configurations, providing more accuracy to security and law enforcement services. The latest breakthrough in this field is the scanning of irises from a distance of up […]
Denver mom Val Starks becomes enraged and publicly humiliates daughter on Facebook for posing as 19 and posting indecent pictures — Video has more than 10 million views. A Denver mother’s video on Facebook has become a viral rage after she scolded her 13-year-old daughter for posting lewd pictures and claiming her age was 19. Valerie […]
Another day — Another PayPal Phishing scam! There’s an email claiming that PayPal is considering a payment reversal. Allegedly, a payment was made without the account holder’s consent that seems like a transaction error. What happens is that in order to respond to PayPal’s request for information, user are asked to click a login link to […]
The email apparently is sent from the popular messaging service WhatsApp and claims that you have received an audio recording. A malicious email claiming to be sent by the messaging service WhatsApp is actually a malware. The email’s subject line contains a name that has been derived from your email address’ first portion and a randomly […]
To demonstrate their creativity cybercriminals have released a new ransomware equipped with file encryption abilities and this time they have chosen logo of “Los Pollos Hermanos” fast food chain featured in famous TV show “Breaking Bad.” No matter how much we condemn cybercriminals for their deeds we cannot deny that they have been demonstrating their […]
Summary: Earlier this week Bob Sullivan reported that hackers can easily access Starbucks customer accounts by stealing their username and passwords and naturally Starbucks app users panicked — Starbucks in its official statement denied the allegations of any sort of security breach. An independent tech reporter Bob Sullivan shocked the users of Starbucks app by reporting that […]
Ever paid attention to how much info Google Search has about you? Well, if you haven’t done so, now you can check it because Google has added a new function to its search engine that allows users to download, view and even delete their complete search history. Google has added a new function on its […]