Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect

In Brief
Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data.

But, now Google has updated its browser’s User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect.

Furthermore, developers are prohibited from collecting unnecessary browsing data and must also use

5 Things Google has Done for Gmail Privacy and Security

Over the past few years, Google has increasingly improved the online security and protections of its Gmail users.



Besides two-factor authentication and HTTPS, Google has added new tools and features to Gmail that ensures users security and privacy, preventing cyber criminals and intelligence agencies to hack email accounts.



1. Enhanced State-Sponsored Attack Warnings



Apple vs. FBI

Mozilla Firefox Launches Web Extensions API to Support Chrome and Opera Extensions

Should we feel happy about it? Let's find out!



What Firefox has been thinking of is, it is planning to bring in Google chrome's web browser extensions to support the features of Mozilla Firefox.



The parent company of Firefox i. e. Mozilla Foundation has decided to update their add-on and extension infrastructure, making Firefox more capable and user-friendly.



Ranked number three,

This Facebook Hack Allows You to Track Your Friends On Map

Remember the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveal the whereabouts of characters as they roam classrooms and the halls of Hogwarts school?



A student developer from Cambridge has created a Chrome extension that works similar and also named it Marauder’s Map.



The extension that allows you to watch every footstep of your Facebook friends by grabbing location data

Free Tool Allows Anyone to View Facebook Users' Hidden Friends List

Facebook lets you control your every single information posted on the social media site by giving many options to make them private from others, even from your friends.



But…



There are some personal information on Facebook that you just cannot completely hide — Your friends list are among those, even if there is an option to hide it.



The issue resides in the Facebook’s mutual-friends

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Bypass Google Password Alert

Less than 24 hours after Google launched the new Phishing alert extension Password Alert, a security researcher was able to bypass the feature using deadly simple exploits.



On Wednesday, the search engine giant launched a new Password Alert Chrome extension to alert its users whenever they accidentally enter their Google password on a carefully crafted phishing website that aimed at

Simplest Way to Check If Your Emails Are Being Tracked

You might be not aware of the companies that know pretty much everything related to your email activities like when you’ve opened email sent by one of their clients, where you are located, what device you’re using, what link you click, all without your consent, even if you haven’t click any link provided in that email.



Companies like Yesware, Bananatag, and Streak track emails, usually by