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By Niharika Singh

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1. Facebook is apologetic, again! In yet another case of data mishandling, the social network has exposed photos of up to 6.8 million users to third-party app developers.

2. Forget humans, seems like Alexa is befriending the birds too. In a bizarre incident, an African Grey parrot named Rocco, has been caught placing shopping orders via his owner's Amazon Alexa.

3. RBI has been warned by Mastercard. The company has proposed a date to authority when it will start deleting back-data of Indian cardholders from its global servers but has warned of the security risk.

4. Google is vary of the facial recognition technology. Keeping the users safety in mind, the company has said that the controversial technology merits careful consideration.

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Niharika Singh

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Social Media Executive, Entrepreneur India

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