Facebook has added a new feature ‘Live Location’ to its Messenger texting app. Although the Live Location is making it easier for your friends and family to know your whereabouts, it is also raising Facebook privacy concerns. The feature allows you to convey your live location to the loved ones for a specific time. Facebook’s
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Are you dreaming of an unblocked Facebook when travelling? Check out our VPN solution to unblock all social media. Worldwide, there are over 1.79 billion monthly active Facebook users, which represents a 16% increase year by year ! Indeed, you might be in a country where Facebook is blocked right now, feeling isolated and away from what
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Nowadays, we tend to take Internet for granted, especially in developed countries.We can hardly imagine our lives without access to the web, everywhere and somewhat immediately. However, the situation is not the same in many parts of the world with pervasive censorship in many countries, mainly to limit the freedom of access to information. We
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According to the Washington Post and the Guardian, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI have access to the servers of nine U.S. Internet giants, including Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google and Facebook so as to monitor what foreign web users are doing. This of course has been denied by the IT groups concerned. This
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With internet access available in most of the world, everyone is connected more than ever, but that isn’t entirely true. In some countries and regions, access to social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, etc… is blocked and restricted. So where are Facebook and Twitter Blocked? And how to unblock Twitter in China, how
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Can you imagine what it would be like to live for a few days without social media? Well, it’s an issue that’s happening right now in Algeria, and while social media has its benefits, it also has benefits that are unethical yet still utilized. Algerian authorities have briefly blocked access to Facebook, Twitter, and other
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With almost 1.6billion users of Facebook, it isn’t surprising to learn that the social media website attracts the most attempted online scams. How to stay safe from Facebook scammers is very important as in a report conducted this year from technology firm Cisco showed that Facebook scams are the most common form of attack method online, second to malware
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In a ruling that has gone the social media giant’s way, a German court rules Facebook can prevent fake names from being used on their website. This comes after a previous ruling that stated the opposite from the Hamburg Data Protection Authority last July, which stated it was against privacy and they didn’t have the
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Yahoo are the latest company to be offering support to its users if at any point they feel they are under threat of state sponsored security breaches. Following on from Facebook announcing a similar move, it seems a possible trend might be starting that actually shows companies caring for their customer base after numerous cyber
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In an exhaustive report on data protection, privacy and censorship on some of the world’s largest tech companies have shown an alarming trend. None of them offered an adequate level of disclosure on their levels of privacy and censorship, resulting in the highest scoring company only at 65%. As the report shows the world’s top tech
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