Google's spam policy hit by EU antitrust complaint from German media companyLaunched in March last year, Google's site reputation abuse policy targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an att...
15 Apr, 2025, 11.37 PM IST
San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girlsNow a new effort to shut down the app and others like it is being pursued in California, where San Francisco this week filed a first-of-its...
17 Aug, 2024, 09.19 AM IST
Amazon to proactively remove more content that violates rules from cloud service: ReportAmazon will hire a small group of people in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division to develop expertise and work with outside researchers t...
03 Sep, 2021, 05.36 PM IST
Kangana Ranaut defends sister Rangoli Chandel, says it's time to 'demolish' TwitterThe actress also called out Farah Khan Ali and Reema Kagti for making false accusations against her sister.
18 Apr, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
Net watchdogs make a quick buckRequiring no tech qualifications, content moderation is being taken up by homemakers and students who form close to 80% of the team.
15 Jun, 2017, 11.10 AM IST
Twitter will defend voice of its users, says CEOTwitter today said it will make sure that the "voices" of its users are defended, even as it would make it harder for any "abuse" to take p...
24 Mar, 2015, 08.51 PM IST
Password, SMS stealing virus hits Android phonesThe deadly virus has been identified as 'AndroidSmssend' and it can acquire as many as four aliases to hoodwink the user and perpetrate its...
09 Dec, 2014, 03.36 PM IST
FakeOff app to detect bogus Facebook accountsAs instances of cyber impersonation on social networking sites rise, an Israel-based start-up developed an application, FakeOff, that helps...
28 Jan, 2014, 04.15 PM IST
Indians hire help to airbrush their digital pastWhile larger organizations have been using online reputation managers for years now, ORM heads say they are now being approached by individ...
08 Sep, 2013, 05.23 AM IST
Jindal, AIIMS Prof fall prey to cyber crimeThe cyber cell of Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing has registered four cases of cyber crime in the past two days following complaints.
24 Mar, 2013, 12.05 PM IST
- Congress pokes fun at BJP as Gurumurthy defends Gadkari
BJP found itself at the receiving end when Congress hit out against the probe mechanism adopted by the party on Gadkari's biz transactions.
08 Nov, 2012, 05.39 AM IST
- Now, get insured against being hacked on Facebook, Twitter
Your social media accounts will be soon insured against the nuisance of hacking as a UK-based firm has launched the first social media insu...
18 Sep, 2012, 05.25 PM IST
- Facebook to lift ban on under-13s joining social network site?
Facebook may relax a ban on children under the age of 13 joining its site after finding that many kids were already using it.
21 May, 2012, 12.23 AM IST
- Social media is here to stay, and trying to impose harsh controls on it cannot work
On Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, the three most cited examples of social media, people can exchange views instantly and can have a discussi...
30 Apr, 2012, 10.06 AM IST
- Kapil Sibal move against offensive content on websites; Digvijay backs
Congress leader Digvijay Singh backed Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's drive against offensive and defamatory content on internet sites.
06 Dec, 2011, 09.15 PM IST
- Australia minister attacks 'creepy' Google chief in Web row
Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy "a bit creepy" in personal attacks against the head of the company a...
25 May, 2010, 11.06 AM IST
- Web Terrorism: Google haunted by web attackers
Not even Google is safe on internet. Web attackers have started paying the search engine to host malicious websites. Danger in portals | He...
20 Dec, 2008, 12.12 PM IST