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Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés or CNIL has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing data with its parent company Facebook. WhatsApp has been given a month’s time to comply with the order. This decision finally stopped the battle which began last year when WhatsApp updated their Terms of Service to add a clause detailing the sharing of data with Facebook for targeted advertisement.CNIL ruled out that WhatsApp’s security conces were valid but at the same time, this didn’t give them right to share user data for business purposes. The regulating authority said that there’s no way of opting out of data collection and it violates the fundamental freedoms of users. This is not the f...

Despite repeated vigorous denials, it seems anti-virus company Kaspersky is unable to convince anyone that matters that they are not in league with the Russian govement.Reuters report s that UK’s National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin sent a memo to other govement departments waing them that as Russia is“a highly capable cyber threat actor which uses cyber as a tool of statecraft,” that has the intent to target the UK and its critical infrastructure, computers with info that could harm national security shouldn’t use an anti-virus software developed by a Russian company.In JulyKaspersky was similarly been removed from the US govements approved vendors list after concer...

Germany has been a leader in pushing for more privacy and control of user data in Windows 10, but despite concessions by Microsoft the operating system has not been felt to be secure enough for govement deployment.Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) has, for example, determined that it was not possible to completely control the data stream between the OS and Microsoft’s servers via Windows Group Policy.Fortunately for Microsoft Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior is ready to work with Microsoft for a solution, and is in the process of creating a standard and secured “Federal Client” version of the OS which could be rolled out to all govement computers...

Star Wars Battlefront II’s loot box controversy gathered mainstream attention around the world, and it looks like the situation isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Now, govement officials from the United States, Australia, and Belgium have weighed in ...

Last month, Amazon started taking pre-orders for Xbox One X Standard Edition and they sold out their initial stock in just few days. Today, they have again started taking pre-orders for Xbox One X in the US. Order it soon before it gets sold out agai...

Update:It looks like Best Buy is also out of the preorders. Even though you can add the console to your cart, you eventually get an error which says it’s out of stock. Retailers around the world, like Amazon in Canada and the United Kingdom, are also reporting that the console is out of stock. It looks like Xbox One X: Project Scorpio Edition preorders are sold out already on Amazon in the United States. While we expected the stock to be limited, we didn’t expect the stock to be this limited. Xbox One X: Project Scorpio Edition includes the console, controller and stand, but more importantly...

Update 2: Xbox One X preorder information is now confirmed for Sunday. Albert Penello also teased another surprise. Maybe it’s ReCore: Definitive Edition? It looks like Xbox One X preorder information may be revealed as early as tomorrow. Earlier today, GameStop tweeted that they had a “big aouncement” about the Xbox One X on Sunday so I imagine it’s probably that preorders will go live then. A few hours later Phil Spencer said that Microsoft will reveal more tomorrow. We'll share more info on this tomorrow. — Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) August 16, 2017 The company will probably tell every...

Microsoft suffered a major legal setback yesterday as a U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered LinkedIn to remove within 24 hours any technology that prevents HiQ from accessing public LinkedIn profiles. HiQ Labs was using LinkedIn’s public profile data to build a technology that predicts employee...

Microsoft’s newSurface Penis now available for pre-order in Australia and Canada. It is available in4 different colors (Platinum, Cobalt Blue, Black, and Burgundy) to match the colors of new Surface Pro Signature Type Covers. Now better than ever, the new Surface Pen delivers the most natural wr...

When Microsoft aounced the new Surface Pen, they said that it will be available in 4 different colors (Platinum, Cobalt Blue, Black, and Burgundy) to match the colors of new Surface Pro Signature Type Covers. However, only the Platinum version was available fororder until now.From today, you ca...

Long time foe of Microsoft’s Windows Defender anti-virus, Kaspersky, has been removed from the US govements approved vendors list after conces were raised that the software provided by the vendor could allow the Kremlin access to the US govement’s secure computer systems. The vendor list rela...