security – Sourav Ghosh https://souravghoshsays.github.io Aspiring Computer Scientist | Samsung R&D Institute - Bangalore | M.Tech (CS), IIT Kharagpur Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:54:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/wp-content/uploads/Professional-75x75.jpg security – 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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