Social – Sourav Ghosh https://souravghoshsays.github.io Aspiring Computer Scientist | Samsung R&D Institute - Bangalore | M.Tech (CS), IIT Kharagpur Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:57:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/wp-content/uploads/Professional-75x75.jpg Social – Sourav Ghosh https://souravghoshsays.github.io 32 32 Facebook Profile Picture Guard: Completely Preventive or just a Deterrent? https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:23:32 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=7432 This week, Facebook India launched a new tool called the Profile Picture Guard, which is aimed at preventing misuse of profile pictures by third parties and thereby giving an enhanced sense of privacy and safety to the users. But how well can it actually protect user privacy? In markets like India, there have been cases …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/feed/ 0 Photo tagging abuse : A chagrin of social media https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:31:24 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=2901 Although the word “tagging” was not coined by social media, yet today it has become quite commonplace, thanks to the mass acceptance and popularity of sites like Facebook and Instagram. We take group photos, upload them on these sites, share them with out friends, but we don’t stop there. We tag the people in them! …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/feed/ 0 The Adventurous Chronicles of 2014 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:05:13 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=2711 Last year around this time, based on my trips to Dehradun, Bangalore, Chennai and Puri, and getting to interact with so many interesting people and receiving awards from IT giants, I thought that 2013 had been the most eventful year. And, I was right…. until 2014! 2014 was an adventure of a lifetime. So many …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/feed/ 0 “Sit-and-Draw” Competition at SOS Children’s Village https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2010/11/15/sit-and-draw-competition-at-sos-childrens-village-2/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2010/11/15/sit-and-draw-competition-at-sos-childrens-village-2/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:18:40 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=16 As part of their NSS project, a group of students from Techno India, Salt Lake (including myself) visited SOS Children’s Village, located at Block-BK, Sector-II, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700091, and successfully organized a “Sit-and-Draw” Competition with 28 children of the orphanage on 15th November, 2010. On the receipt of a letter from the Registrar of Techno …

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