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Google Promises to Respect Privacy as It Dives into Healthcare Business
Eric Risberg/AP Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the tech giant is setting its sights on the healthcare business and promised to respect patient privacy. Reuters reports that speaking at the...
Bank Chief Tells Employees: Stay Off Zoom, Google Hangouts
LEON NEAL/AFP Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns. Reuters reports that Standard...
ProtonMail could use Google’s infrastructure to circumvent censorship
ProtonMailImage Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat **This article was updated on March 16, 2020, to reflect additional input from Proton, which told VentureBeat that it would only use Google’s infrastructure in very limited situations — and that it won’t be...
Will Capital One’s 106M Name Data Breach Cut Into AWS’s Growth?
Should you own Amazon stock? It would certainly be a better investment if its most profitable business, AWS, was growing faster. And the odds of that happening would be better if the industry in which it competes — cloud services — was accelerating. But news that...
Flaws in widely used corporate VPNs put company secrets at risk
Researchers have found several security flaws in popular corporate VPNs which they say can be used to silently break into company networks and steal business secrets. Devcore researchers Orange Tsai and Meh Chang, who shared their findings with TechCrunch ahead...
A new Facebook privacy flaw allowed thousands of children on Messenger Kids to enter group chats with strangers
Facebook’s Messenger Kids is supposed to provide parents complete control over who their children chat can with on the app. But as The Verge reported on Monday, that key promise appears to have been broken, thanks to a design flaw with the app....