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Google+ – The Titanic got second Iceberg!

Google’s semi-obsolete Social Network platform, Google+, is in the negative spotlight again as it has exposed personal information of around 52.5 million Google+ users second time this year! Google+ has suffered this ruinous Data Breach for a record second time in consecutive three months. The Tech Giant, Google said in a blog post on Monday that software amendments introduced to Google+ in November 2018 had a bug enclosed in Google+ People API. The Large spread of this Bug in Google+ took place in form of an update released by Google making them the evil eye. Insight in to First Pernicious Data Breach of Google+ This Internet-based Social Network was launched by Google in June 2011 in order to serve as a social spine for different services of Google like Adwords and YouTube. Google integrated distinct unique features to Google+ in order to make it stand out of the crowd of popular social networking services. Alas, the fame of Google+ & Google’s efforts to hike up Google+ wen...

Twitter played harsh with 143,000 Apps that violated its policies

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Twitter removed more than 143000 apps this year between April and June 2018 who breached company’s policies. The company has also promised to improve tools and processes to ensure overall safety and security for everyone. Twitter is an online social networking platform that enables users to interact with each other via messages known as “Tweets”. Developed and launched in the mid of 2006, the service gained worldwide popularity in a short period. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 300 million monthly active users and around 340 million tweets a day. The platform is also famous among businesses as it has helped them benefit from this social networking service. Also the app has enabled developers build careers in data science, learn coding and much more. Since the launch of this amazing online social networking platform, Twitter is proud of the contribution of the developers for discovering helpful and innovative use cases and produce delightful and fun experiences on Twitter. Twi...

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Google Partner for “Data Transfer Project”: An initiative that promises service portability

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Data Transfer Project that will allow users to transfer data (contacts, contents, and many more) across apps (form one service to another) without needing to download it and re-upload it. The transferred data would be encrypted making it difficult for the third partied to access it without user permission. Formed in 2017, DTP is an open source data portability platform that any online service can join. The motive behind this project is to enable users to transfer data (import and export data) between online service providers anytime without ant hassle. DTP already supports a few prototypes that allow online platforms to transfer several data including photos, email, calendar, contacts and tasks. However this information cannot be shared directly online from one app to another without downloading it. Data Transfer Project makes use of APIs used by existing services and authorization mechanism to access data. But the transfer of this data could be challenge as the data contain...