Category: Social

Over the past few decades, people are becoming more aware of their personal and professional data on the Internet. In the past, technology and treasure were the biggest things to citizens; however, in this 21st century, data is the most crucial thing for people as well as a company owner. 

Almost every web application and mobile application mentioned in their terms and conditions that they will not use customer’s data for another purpose. Indeed, they do. Yes, they do it from the beginning. 

They actively sell customer’s private data such as Name, Phone number, Email id, Address, Gender, and many other to sales companies to earn high margin revenue.

Unfortunately, the Billion dollars company, Facebook’s, data was leaked yesterday by a threat. A report from Indian media said that approximately 6 million user’s personal information was leaked. The number illustrates Indian users only. 

The leaked data includes user information like – full name, Facebook id, current and past location, date of birth, the status of a relationship, and the entire bio. 

The security team has researched that the data may be used for criminal activities or imitating a personal fraud. They also mentioned that the data might be a few years old. 

The threat may be extracted from the user’s data from a Facebook bug in the “Add Friend” section, solved by the FB team back in 2019. However, they did not release data at that time and continued to circulate it until yesterday.

Are you worried about your data?

From the morning, almost every guy worried about whether their data was leaked or not? Are they composed in the 6 million lists? What should they do?

Don’t worry! To check whether you are exposed or not, there is a way. 

A service, “Have I Been Pwned?” is run by the famous security specialist Troy Hunt. The program was created to help let people check whether they pwned or not by themselves. 

If you also want to check your details, go to the website, and type your email id (whichever is registered with Facebook) in the given field. Click the button Pwned? And the system shows you are actually exposed or not? Here, the entire breached list is filtered by the user’s email id. 

Luckily, if you are not exposed, then you will see the green signal. Except you will see the red signal. 

In both cases, they advise all website visitors to secure their accounts and show the three methods for that.

Moreover, to update the service, the owner tweeted on his account that he will improve it as a user can also search whether they are exposed or not by entering their mobile number.

What should you do if you are on the list?

As of now, there is no security checkup and guideline for it. However, the team was continuously working to prevent the number of identities. 

It’s almost nine months since TikTok was banned in India. Since then, everyone wanted to build the perfect replacement for it to Indian. Many platforms appear after that, like – Instagram Reels, MX Takatak, Cheez, Vigo Video, Josh, and a lot more. 

Like other big companies, Snap Inc also came up with its own music video entertainment platform. Snapchat launched the entertainment platform on Tuesday in India, called Spotlight.

As per the official announcement, Spotlight provides all the snap filters and themes from the Snapchat application. From that, all Snapchat Users will be able to use all features in one place. Moreover, everyone gets feeds on their app according to favourites and preferences over time.

According to a survey of Snapchat, there are approximately 5 billion spans generated each day by the Snapchatters. Now, they aim to build their community by Spotlight and want to reach more audiences uniquely.

The application Spotlight enables app users to create and publish exciting and innovative short video stories on the platform, which all other users can view. 

The company also mentioned in the press statement that Spotlight gained around 100 million users in the only month of January. 

Snapchat launched the Spotlight last year in November initially in 11 countries, including the United State, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and France. Now they also launched Spotlight in India, Brazil, and Mexico.

What creators will get?

The eye-catching part is that Spotlight has a feature to pay unique creators whose video goes viral. To earn money from the platform, your age must be at least 16 years or older. It also requires parental support.

Features and Guidelines

All the content in the Spotlight has no permission to comment. Moreover, all the uploaded short videos must follow the Spotlight publish guidelines. From this, users prevent trolling and various other types of harassment.

Why India is the priority for Snapchat?

Snapchat is aimed to gain 60 million users from only India, and luckily, they succeed. Moreover, Indian youth are also more attractive towards this kind of platform. 

Currently, Snapchat has around 256 million active users daily worldwide. If we talk about using Snapchat, then India comes after the US in the user-market. However, It is believed that it will change for the Spotlight as India’s short video trend rises rapidly day-by-day. 

Their focus in India is to build partnerships, community support and engagement, and support products related to Indian culture. Not only this, but they are also thinking to invest in the home ground of all social media, India.