Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three unidentified people involved in the project. The Geneva-based Libra Association that will issue and govern Libra plans to launch a single digital coin backed by the dollar, the FT said, citing […]
Twitter experiment warns users to self-edit harmful replies
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 […]
Twitter Tells Users It’s Sharing More Personal Data With Advertisers
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 […]
Instagram, Apple, Twitter, Bytedance to TikTok, home-bound users fume as video apps do not sync with TVs
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 […]
Cybercrime: Here are 10 tips that can help you stay safe in the digital world
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 […]
Twitter says a bug may have allowed hackers to acess your phone number
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 […]
Social media rules may make user ID verification mandatory
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 […]