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Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 1,191.05 million at November end with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel expanding their user base, according to TRAI data. Reliance Jio has also toppled BSNL as top fixed line broadband subscriber and now leads the segment with 4.34 million customers which had been dominated by the state-run telecom since its inception about 20 years ago.Total wireless customer base in the country was 1,167.5 million at end-November, according to a monthly subscriber report published…

Facebook is reportedly unable to identify where most of its user data is located, or how it is used, after it is collected, according to a leaked internal document penned by privacy engineers at Facebook last year. The team, which builds and maintains Facebook's advertisement system — the heart of the company's business model, has flagged “data lineage” issues with how user data is handled. The report raises questions of whether Facebook will be able to comply with inbound privacy regulations from various regions around…

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Computers are with us at the office, at home, at school, and in just about every other space we humans inhabit. As they continue to become a more and more prevalent part of our lives, the ways in which we interface with them grow more important as well. For the most casual users out there, any mouse or touchpad will likely do. But, if you're tech savvy enough to have clicked on this article, chances are you want a little bit more from…

When Apple unveiled iCloud+ at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2021, one of its key features was a secure VPN called Private Relay. Yet a fresh report claims the service has been leaking user data on MacOS, potentially meaning it’s not as secure as previously thought. Private Relay works by obfuscating various identifying pieces of information when you browse the internet. It encrypts your data, separates your page requests from your IP address, then assigns you a spoof IP address. The idea is that…

Facebook owner Meta gave user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source said on Wednesday, highlighting the risks of a measure used in urgent cases.Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified "emergency data requests," which can slip past privacy barriers, said the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.Criminal hackers have been compromising email accounts or websites tied to police…

Content identified as misleading or problematic were mistakenly prioritised in users' Facebook feeds recently, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to tech site The Verge.Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it "vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately it had no meaningful, long-term impact on problematic content," according to Joe Osborne, a spokesman for parent company Meta.But the bug was serious enough for a group of Facebook employees to…