Instagram will soon let users download all their images and videos

Popular image and video sharing platform Instagram announced that the users will soon be able to download a copy of their content posted.

The announcement comes amid the ongoing data privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica and social media platform, Facebook.

As per an Instagram spokesperson, the company is working on a data portability tool for users to download a copy of the photos, videos and messages shared on the platform, reports TechCrunch.

However, it remains unclear whether the company would go beyond allowing users to download the above-mentioned data, such as following and follower lists, likes, comments, Stories, and captions shared with posts.

In March, Facebook, as part of its privacy updates, announced that users can access data shared with the platform by downloading a secure copy and moving it to another service. Data can include photos, contacts, timeline posts, and more.

Tinder users suffer login issue after Facebook tweaks privacy framework

Popular dating app Tinder suffered a brief outage after its users got stuck in Facebook login process where they were asked for extra permissions, only to be sent back to the original Facebook log-in request.

Confirming the glitch, the dating app tweeted late on Wednesday: “A technical issue is preventing users from logging into Tinder. We apologise for the inconvenience and are working to have everyone swiping again soon.”

Tinder users faced login issues in the wake of Facebook altering its developer frameworks in the name of “improving data privacy”, according to Engadget.

Since a user needs a Facebook account to log into Tinder, this bug has reportedly affected Tinder’s entire user base.

“The social network has confirmed that these problems were ‘part of the changes’ and that it’s ‘working with Tinder’ to fix the problem,” the Engadget report added.

Too late for Facebook to regulate itself, says Apple’s Cook on data breach

Facebook should have had regulated itself long back but it’s too late for that now, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reiterated.

In an interview with Recode and MSNBC scheduled to be aired on April 6, Cook also made a harsh rebuke of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others who use customer data to make revenues.

Cook said he would prefer that Facebook and others would have curbed their use of personal data to build “these detailed profiles of people… patched together from several sources”.

“I think the best regulation is self-regulation. However, I think we’re beyond that here,” Cook said.

“The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetised our customer a” if our customer was our product. We’ve elected not to do that,” the Apple CEO added.

On a question that what would he do if he were Zuckerberg, he said: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

With the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealing massive Facebook data misuse, Cook earlier called for more measures to ensure user data protection.

At the annual China Development Forum in Beijing, he said: “I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary”.

Blackberry sues Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram over messaging app patents

Canadian multinational company BlackBerry limited on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against social media large facebook, alleging that the platform and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram infringed on BlackBerry messaging app patents.

BlackBerry claimed that the agency’s proprietary and patent-covered messaging product BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), become a cornerstone of contemporary cellular communications.

The agency is now contending that its intellectual assets has been infringed upon through facebook’s “using a number of the modern protection, person interface, and capability enhancing capabilities that made BlackBerry’s merchandise any such crucial and commercial success in the first area,” in step with The Verge.

In December 2016, the former mobile giant bought the rights to layout, manufacture, and sell BlackBerry-branded telephones to chinese language multinational TCL, leaving BlackBerry limited in fee of the latter’s software and cell security products.

Now you can add your Facebook friend during a live video or audio chat

Facebook has rolled out a new feature in both iOS and Android apps that can allow users to add more friends and family members to a live audio and video chats in Messenger.

With the update, users need not hang up and manually add people into a conversation before restarting the call.

“We’re excited to share a small new feature that will hopefully have a big impact to make your video and audio chats easier and faster than ever,” Sarah Morris, Product Manager of Messenger, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

Earlier, to turn a one-on-one video or audio chat into a group chat, users had to hang up, start a new conversation from your inbox — either by creating an entirely new message or by searching for an old one — and then turn that conversation into a call.

While in a video chat or on a voice call, tap the screen, select the “add person” icon and choose who you want to join.

Sachin Tendulkar branded smartphones are launching today

Smartron, an Indian information technology company, is set to launch Sachin Tendulkar-branded smartphone in India today.

The information related to hardware and software of the upcoming smartphone is scarce and the company has kept the lid tight on such information until the official launch, which is just a few hours away now.

The srt.phone will become the first-ever signature smartphone endorsed by Sachin Tendulkar and there are chances that we may see more in the series in future as well.

Last year, Smartron received an undisclosed amount of funding from cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who is also a brand ambassador of the company.

The company does not have a vast line of product range and is currently offering just a smartphone – t.phone – and high-end tablet – t.book. Both the products are promoted as ‘designed and engineered in India’ and are currently available through major online e-commerce platform and offline retail stores.

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