A new commercial data pact between the European Union and the United States entered into force on Tuesday, ending months of uncertainty over cross-border data flows, and companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft can sign up from August 1. The EU-US Privacy Shield will give businesses moving personal data across the Atlantic – from human resources information to people’s ... Read More »
New Delhi: With mobile services market hotting up ahead of Reliance Jio’s launch, Vodafone India on Tuesday said it will announce revised plans for data pack in a day or two to keep its promise of offering “competitive” rates to customers. “We always believe in giving value to customers. We will shortly be coming out with our plans,” Vodafone India ... Read More »
Mumbai: Predicting data revenues for telecom operators to double to $11 billion by 2017-18, top brokerage CLSA has said the much-awaited commercial entry of Reliance Jio would drive the market further. Even as existing operators have begun to focus on content, the key differentiator will be network delivery, or quality and download speed – areas that have intensified ahead of ... Read More »
The Belgian data protection authority on Wednesday lost a legal battle with Facebook in which it sought to stop the social network from tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit the social network’s pages. The Belgian Privacy Commission said the Brussels Appeals Court had dismissed its case on the grounds that the regulator has no jurisdiction ... Read More »
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HIGHLIGHTS Reliance is offering unlimited calling and data on purchase of Lyf phones The company announced price drops for several Lyf phones Reliance Jio’s 4G services haven’t been officially launched Gadgets 360 has learnt that several Lyf-branded smartphones have received official price drops. The company communicated to its dealers that the new prices are effective from Tuesday. The Lyf smartphones ... Read More »
FBI requests for customer records beneath a secretive surveillance order multiplied with the aid of nearly50 percentage in 2015, according to a US government transparency file published this week. internet and telecommunications organizations in 2015 received forty eight,642 requests, up from 33,024mentioned in 2014, for data via so-referred to as countrywide security Letters (NSLs). The NSL is a toolutilized by ... Read More »
Facebook Inc. scored a victory in its battle against German privacy regulators who claim they can regulate the social network’s policies. A Hamburg court halted enforcement of an order by the city’s data watchdog who had told Facebook to allow users to sign up to the social network under a pseudonym. German law doesn’t apply to Facebook’s privacy policy, as ... Read More »
Microsoft became on Monday the first major US tech company to say it would transfer users’ information to the United States using a new transatlantic commercial data pact and would resolve any disputes with European privacy watchdogs. Data transfers to the United States have been conducted in a legal limbo since October last year when the European Union’s top court ... Read More »
As Apple battles the US government over encryption to unlock an iPhone used by an attacker in a mass shooting in San Bernadino last year, top US companies Google, Facebook and Snapchat are expanding encryption of user data in their services, media reported. According to The Guardian, while WhatsApp is set to roll out encryption for its voice calls in ... Read More »
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