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Whether you use Google or Yahoo! or some other search engine entirely, you’ve likely found yourself at some point clicking on a link, believing it to be a search result, only to be taken to what is obviously an advertisement, feeling annoyed all the while. This has become a more common problem over time as
Jun 20
Last week Yahoo announced that it would be resetting user IDs that have been inactive for 12 months. Some people have voiced concerns that hackers might misuse these recycled user IDs, that it could lead to online identity theft. Yahoo’s Dylan Casey has downplayed these concerns
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Jun 20
That whole Yahoo buying Tumblr thing? That’s a done deal. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer took to Yahoo’s Tumblr account — meta! — to announce her excitement at the deal’s close. “Today is an incredibly exciting day for Yahoo! and Tumblr,” Mayer said. She reconfirmed Yahoo’s commitment to running Tumblr as a separate entity, and announced a whole mess of new Tumblrs dedicated to various capacities of Yahoo (Search, Messenger, Mail, Sports, Answers and Flickr). There’s even a GIF containing the fairly amazing image seen above. Head below for the full letter of celebration from Mayer herself.
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Jun 20
Yahoo has responded to claims that recycled email accounts could pose a security problem, claiming i
Posted in: Today's ChiliYahoo has responded to claims that recycled email accounts could pose a security problem, claiming it’s "going to extraordinary lengths" to protect users. Obviously.
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Jun 20
Yahoo has dismissed fears of hacking and impersonation after it deactivates dormant user accounts, arguing that the risk of identity theft is incredibly low. The company announced last week that it would be culling those accounts not used for twelve months, prompting concerns that new sign-ups with recycled names could go on to “borrow” the
Jun 18
FISA request roundup: Who has Uncle Sam asked to see your data, and how often?
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As much as the federal government would like it to, the public outrage at the scope of its PRISM program has yet to die down, despite any good the program may have served in the interests of national and local security. The revelations made by Edward Snowden have cast a bright light on the powers granted our government by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and many companies are taking the opportunity to push the feds to let them tell the public just how many governmental data requests are being made. Of course, no company can release exactly how many requests were made under FISA — companies can only publish the number of total data requests, whether they be from the NSA, local law enforcement or elsewhere. Since so many of Silicon Valley’s giants have been dishing our data to Uncle Sam on the sly, we figured we’d bring you all the numbers in one place.
At the top of the request list is Yahoo, which received between 12-13,000 requests in the first six months of 2013. During that same time period, Apple received between 4-5,000 requests. Meanwhile, Google reported 8,438 requests between July and December of 2012, Facebook received between 9-10,000 and Microsoft was asked for its users data between 6-7,000 times. Prefer pictures to numbers? A colorful chart awaits after the break.
Jun 18
FISA request roundup: where and how often has the government been mining user data?
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As much as the federal government would like it to, the public outrage at the scope of its PRISM program has yet to die down, despite any good the program may have served in the interests of national and local security. The revelations made by Edward Snowdon have cast a bright light on the powers granted our government by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and many companies are taking the opportunity to push the feds to let them tell the public just how many governmental data requests are being made. Of course, no company can release exactly how many requests were made under FISA — companies can only publish the number of total data requests, whether they be from the NSA, local law enforcement or elsewhere. Since so many of Silicon Valley’s giants have been dishing our data to Uncle Sam on the sly, we figured we’d bring you all the numbers in one place.
At the top of the request list is Yahoo, which received between 12-13,000 requests in the first six months of 2013. During that same time period, Apple received between 4-5,000 requests. Meanwhile, Google reported 8,438 requests between July and December of 2012, Facebook received between 9-10,000 and Microsoft was asked for its users data between 6-7,000 times. Prefer pictures to numbers? A colorful chart awaits after the break.
Jun 18
Making this the second big departure for Tumblr in just a few weeks, the company’s media director Mark Coatney (one of the initial employees at Tumblr) has announced that he’s resigning from his role at Tumblr. He didn’t say what his future plans were, other than that he has “a hungry baby to feed,” but
Jun 18
Yahoo’s revealed that it received a staggering 12,000 US government data requests between December 1
Posted in: Today's ChiliYahoo’s revealed that it received a staggering 12,000 US government data requests between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013—way more than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and co.
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