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'Large number' Of Americans' Metadata Stolen By Chinese Hackers "Salt Typhoon"
A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S. official told journalists on Wednesday.
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Google Photos Will Now Add Labels to Images Edited Using AI Tools
Google Photos announced the introduction of specific labels to highlight that an image has been edited using artificial intelligence (AI) tools on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant will start including this information within the metadata of the images to let anyone easily check whether the image was made using synthetic methods. Apart f...
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Google to Introduce C2PA Content Credentials to Help Users Identify AI-Generated Images
Google announced on Tuesday that there were new ways for users to find out whether an image was created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While the tech giant has been working on developing internal tools to watermark AI-generated content, it also joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committ...
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AI Models in India Will Require MeitY Approval, Government Says in Advisory: Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) models and generative AI models which are in any phase of testing or unreliable in any way will need to receive “explicit permission of the government of India” before it is deployed in India, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued in an advisory, as per reports.
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Instagram Adds Support for Buying and Selling Polygon NFTs Within the App
Payments giant Visa has unveiled Visa Masters of Movement, a hybrid auction that fuses football, art and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enhance the fan experience ahead of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
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Google Play to Enforce Guidelines to Eliminate Misleading, Spam, or Clone Apps Later This Year
The new strict policy change brings restrictions to app metadata and new guidelines for Store listing preview assets. For instance, an app cannot use graphic or text to indicate ranking, promote deals, incentivise deals, or for any tactics that can be misleading to users. These changes are set to go into effect in the ‘second half of 2021’.
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Apple Allows Users to Transfer iCloud Media to Google Photos With New Service
Apple has launched a new service to let its users automatically transfer photos, videos, and albums from iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. However, shared albums, smart albums, photo stream content, live photos, some metadata, and media that aren't stored in iCloud Photo Library will not be transferred.
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WhatsApp, Centre Gets Supreme Court Notice on Plea Over Lower Privacy Standards for Indian Users
The Supreme Court asked the Centre and WhatsApp to reply to a fresh plea alleging lower standards of privacy for Indians in comparison to European users saying it is the duty of the judiciary to protect citizens' privacy.
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Withdraw The Changes, India Tells Facebook: 10 Latest Facts
WhatsApp has been asked to withdraw proposed changes to its privacy and data-sharing policies - changes the India government today decried as "discriminatory" and that have prompted outrage among large sections of the app's 400 million users in the country. In a letter to the global CEO of Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) the government said it objec...
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WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy, But It's Still Sharing Data With Facebook
WhatsApp has been sharing metadata with Facebook for many years now, so it's new policy wouldn't have changed much for users. But that doesn't mean that people should not be concerned about their privacy.
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Twitter API Still Offers Enough Metadata to Reveal Where You Lived and Worked: Study
A group of international researchers have developed a tool to determine a person's home, workplace, and sensitive locations using pre-2015 tweets.
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Google Photos for Android Now Receives Material Theme Design
The updated Google Photos for Android has included an Info option to show metadata of your images.
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Telecom Secretary Says No Intent to Put Blanket Ban on Messaging Apps
DoT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that "technical solutions" would be worked out based on technologies such as metadata and artificial intelligence (AI) to address the concerns.
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Google Mandates APK Security Metadata for Peer-to-Peer Authentication
The tech giant had last year announced app security and performance changes for developers on Google Play, and it has now introduced security metadata to APKs.
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WhatsApp Says It Collects Very Little Data as Facebook Privacy Scandal Rages On
WhatsApp says it collects very little data on the users even as privacy experts say it makes money by harvesting metadata and information about calls.
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'Large number' Of Americans' Metadata Stolen By Chinese Hackers "Salt Typhoon"
A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S. official told journalists on Wednesday.
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Google Photos Will Now Add Labels to Images Edited Using AI Tools
Google Photos announced the introduction of specific labels to highlight that an image has been edited using artificial intelligence (AI) tools on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant will start including this information within the metadata of the images to let anyone easily check whether the image was made using synthetic methods. Apart f...
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Google to Introduce C2PA Content Credentials to Help Users Identify AI-Generated Images
Google announced on Tuesday that there were new ways for users to find out whether an image was created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While the tech giant has been working on developing internal tools to watermark AI-generated content, it also joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committ...
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AI Models in India Will Require MeitY Approval, Government Says in Advisory: Report
Artificial intelligence (AI) models and generative AI models which are in any phase of testing or unreliable in any way will need to receive “explicit permission of the government of India” before it is deployed in India, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued in an advisory, as per reports.
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Instagram Adds Support for Buying and Selling Polygon NFTs Within the App
Payments giant Visa has unveiled Visa Masters of Movement, a hybrid auction that fuses football, art and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enhance the fan experience ahead of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
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Google Play to Enforce Guidelines to Eliminate Misleading, Spam, or Clone Apps Later This Year
The new strict policy change brings restrictions to app metadata and new guidelines for Store listing preview assets. For instance, an app cannot use graphic or text to indicate ranking, promote deals, incentivise deals, or for any tactics that can be misleading to users. These changes are set to go into effect in the ‘second half of 2021’.
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Apple Allows Users to Transfer iCloud Media to Google Photos With New Service
Apple has launched a new service to let its users automatically transfer photos, videos, and albums from iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. However, shared albums, smart albums, photo stream content, live photos, some metadata, and media that aren't stored in iCloud Photo Library will not be transferred.
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WhatsApp, Centre Gets Supreme Court Notice on Plea Over Lower Privacy Standards for Indian Users
The Supreme Court asked the Centre and WhatsApp to reply to a fresh plea alleging lower standards of privacy for Indians in comparison to European users saying it is the duty of the judiciary to protect citizens' privacy.
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Withdraw The Changes, India Tells Facebook: 10 Latest Facts
WhatsApp has been asked to withdraw proposed changes to its privacy and data-sharing policies - changes the India government today decried as "discriminatory" and that have prompted outrage among large sections of the app's 400 million users in the country. In a letter to the global CEO of Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) the government said it objec...
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WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy, But It's Still Sharing Data With Facebook
WhatsApp has been sharing metadata with Facebook for many years now, so it's new policy wouldn't have changed much for users. But that doesn't mean that people should not be concerned about their privacy.
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Twitter API Still Offers Enough Metadata to Reveal Where You Lived and Worked: Study
A group of international researchers have developed a tool to determine a person's home, workplace, and sensitive locations using pre-2015 tweets.
-
Google Photos for Android Now Receives Material Theme Design
The updated Google Photos for Android has included an Info option to show metadata of your images.
-
Telecom Secretary Says No Intent to Put Blanket Ban on Messaging Apps
DoT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that "technical solutions" would be worked out based on technologies such as metadata and artificial intelligence (AI) to address the concerns.
-
Google Mandates APK Security Metadata for Peer-to-Peer Authentication
The tech giant had last year announced app security and performance changes for developers on Google Play, and it has now introduced security metadata to APKs.
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WhatsApp Says It Collects Very Little Data as Facebook Privacy Scandal Rages On
WhatsApp says it collects very little data on the users even as privacy experts say it makes money by harvesting metadata and information about calls.
