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Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones
Amazon obtained "backdoor access" to consumers' phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps, according to a proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court.
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Will Google Face Trial For Collecting User Data, Invading Privacy?
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking.
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Tips To Protect Smartphones Amid Heatwave
As temperatures soar across the country, a new concern is emerging for smartphone users: how to protect your phone from overheating. Just like people, smartphones have their comfort zones when it comes to temperature.
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US Senators Push for Limits on Law Enforcement's Purchase of Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Tools
US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...
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Your Cellphone Bills Will Get Larger, Airtel Says It May Go First
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.
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Xi Jinping App Allows China Access To 100 Million Users' Phone: Report
The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year.
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Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar Starrer 2.0 Out Now in Theatres Despite COAI's 'Concerns' About 'Misinformation'
2.0 sees Rajinikanth return as Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti, while Akshay Kumar plays the villain of the movie Pakshi Rajan. 2.0 is out now in theatres.
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How Spies Can Use Your Cellphone To Find You, Eavesdrop On Calls, Texts
Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and U.S. officials.
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Website Flaw Exposes Real-Time Locations of US Cellphones
LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.
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Shop Online Soon With Fool-Proof, Iris-Scan 'Aadhaar Phone'
A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...
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China's Online Population Reaches 731 Million
The number of people who go online through cellphones has reached 695 million, or 95.1 percent, as computers lose their appeal.
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Calling China: Phones Everywhere In World's Biggest Market
Sometimes it seems that no one in China, from toddlers to octogenarians, ladies in swimming pools to delivery men mid-manoeuvre, is without a cellphone to hand -- and statistically it is more or less true.
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Mobile Ransomware Attacks Have 'Skyrocketed', Says Kaspersky
Kaspersky Lab's latest report says that the number of mobile users impacted by ransomware has "skyrocketed" as hackers have shifted their focus from PCs.
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Yahoo Must Face Class Action Over Text Messages: US judge
Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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IIT Faculty, Startup India vs. Zuckerberg's Free Basics: 10 Facts
Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?
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Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones
Amazon obtained "backdoor access" to consumers' phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps, according to a proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court.
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Will Google Face Trial For Collecting User Data, Invading Privacy?
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking.
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Tips To Protect Smartphones Amid Heatwave
As temperatures soar across the country, a new concern is emerging for smartphone users: how to protect your phone from overheating. Just like people, smartphones have their comfort zones when it comes to temperature.
-
US Senators Push for Limits on Law Enforcement's Purchase of Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Tools
US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...
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Your Cellphone Bills Will Get Larger, Airtel Says It May Go First
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.
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Xi Jinping App Allows China Access To 100 Million Users' Phone: Report
The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year.
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Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar Starrer 2.0 Out Now in Theatres Despite COAI's 'Concerns' About 'Misinformation'
2.0 sees Rajinikanth return as Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti, while Akshay Kumar plays the villain of the movie Pakshi Rajan. 2.0 is out now in theatres.
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How Spies Can Use Your Cellphone To Find You, Eavesdrop On Calls, Texts
Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and U.S. officials.
-
Website Flaw Exposes Real-Time Locations of US Cellphones
LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.
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Shop Online Soon With Fool-Proof, Iris-Scan 'Aadhaar Phone'
A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...
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China's Online Population Reaches 731 Million
The number of people who go online through cellphones has reached 695 million, or 95.1 percent, as computers lose their appeal.
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Calling China: Phones Everywhere In World's Biggest Market
Sometimes it seems that no one in China, from toddlers to octogenarians, ladies in swimming pools to delivery men mid-manoeuvre, is without a cellphone to hand -- and statistically it is more or less true.
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Mobile Ransomware Attacks Have 'Skyrocketed', Says Kaspersky
Kaspersky Lab's latest report says that the number of mobile users impacted by ransomware has "skyrocketed" as hackers have shifted their focus from PCs.
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Yahoo Must Face Class Action Over Text Messages: US judge
Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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IIT Faculty, Startup India vs. Zuckerberg's Free Basics: 10 Facts
Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?
