Twitter is currently experimenting with giving users a second opportunity to self-edit their tweets and replies if they contain harmful, abusive and hate content, before they post it on the platform and face consequences for violating its policies. It is still not an Edit button for users but a self-edit […]
San Francisco: In a weird move apparently to bring in more ad dollars, Twitter has rolled back a privacy setting that allowed users to stop sharing some personal data with its advertisers, saying the update will help the company “continue operating as a free service.” Users in India and elsewhere […]
Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York`s coronavirus lockdown. But the popular app is incompatible with Google`s Chromecast TV-plugin device which is remote controlled with a smartphone […]
We live in the age of digital fraud. In the last three financial years, the RBI reports that India has been the target of thousands of digital fraud schemes. Unfortunately, the number of such frauds changed only incrementally during this period. The reality is that consumers are still learning to […]
Instagram has been adding a lot of interesting features lately, such as the one where it introduces fun video filters in the Insta Stories for its Boomerang option. And now, the popular photo-sharing app has added a new way to organize the list of who you are following and interacting […]
Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s “contacts upload” feature. In a statement published on its privacy blog, Twitter said it had identified a “high […]
New Delhi: Social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok may have to scramble for developing account identity-verification option to check “fake news, malicious content, misinformation, racial slurs, gender abuse that may have an impact on the individual and society as a whole”. This may form part of […]
Data, privacy and Facebook never really bodes well together in a single sentence for the users. The social media company is notorious for being callous with users’ data as it has been proved multiple times in the last 24 months. However, a new report now suggests that privacy remains elusive on Facebook and it […]
