Naga Pramod
Naga Pramod is a computer science major and tech news reporter with a passion for cyber security, networking, and data science. [email protected]
Meme Wars: Twitter suspends Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross for saying “Learn to Code”.
The Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross’ Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours after posting “Learn to code.”
A new Republican bill wants to make it illegal for social media giants to censor against political free speech
The ‘Stop Social Media Censorship Act’ aims at preventing the social media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter from censoring posts and banning users on grounds of so-called “hate speech”. Republican Senator Joe Gruters has initiated this bill on March 1 and on March 8 2019, this bill was
Thailand’s new “cyber security” law is bad for its citizens’ privacy
The Thai government can now enter any internet company, seize the hardware and extract user data without a court order.
Twitter’s plan to let users hide their tweet replies will help spread disinformation
Twitter is building this feature to protect conversations and ensure a healthy environment on the platform. However, many are seeing it as yet another form of censorship and suppressing discussion.
Chinese data leak exposes 364 million social media profiles, names, IDs, numbers, photos, private conversations
It is well known that China monitors conversations and social media accounts of its citizens.
Coinbase head of sales reveals data leak of their users
The blockchain community on Twitter called for a boycott and urged people to quit using Coinbase.
Facebook lobbied the former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to influence GDPR legislation
Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook reportedly invited one of Osborne’s children to the Facebook office as a part of lobbying efforts.
Senator Josh Hawley’s solution for the censoring of conservatives would actually lead to more censoring of conservatives
Section 230 is actually good at protecting free speech.
Outrage over German Police depending on Amazon’s cloud service for storing body cam videos
Storing such highly sensitive information with a private US company posed an ‘incalculable risk.’
Huawei: the US is scared we’ll stop NSA spying – it’s nothing to do with China
“Prism, Prism on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all?”
12.1 for macOS and 12.2 for iOS updates in the Safari browser have updated intelligent tracking prevention
The latest version of Safari will stop advertisers being able to track you around the internet indefinitely.
Apple shareholders vote down idea to reveal political beliefs
The motion was rejected by 98.3 percent of shareholders.