Alphabet owned Google has just lately launched the brand new 360-degree video backgrounds on cellular for its video calling platform Meet. This new characteristic is obtainable for each Android and iOS on cellular gadgets.
Google stated in a blogpost, “Meet customers on cellular can use a number of new 360-degree video backgrounds. These backgrounds — which embody a seashore and a temple — use your gadget’s gyroscope to create a dynamic expertise that strikes with you.”
It added, “Available on Android and iOS gadgets for all Google Workspace customers and customers with private Google Accounts.”
To recall, the company also introduced another update in which developers can include interactive widgets such as radio buttons, dropdowns and checkboxes in the Chat app cards posted in the Chat message stream. This will help the users to change information sent from Chat apps, such as changing the due date for a task card, selecting options on a card or more.
Meanwhile, Google Play Store has taken down 14 applications in Pakistan due to a breach of the personal information of the citizens, according to a report by Dawn.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) took up the matter with the Alphabet-owned company, based in the US regarding the breach of the personal data of Pakistani residents.
The Dawn news stated that the NADRA brought the topic to the attention of Scott Beaumont, Google’s president for Asia Pacific, Hiang Choong, the legal head for the region, and Stephanie Davis, the vice president for customer solutions at the company.
In a letter to Google, it said, ” Breach of Personal Data of Residents and their Privacy by Application Providers on Google Play Store”.
Further, describing it as an “important and urgent” concern, NADRA added, “personal data of residents of Pakistanis being illegally sold and/or shared by various applications (apps) hosted on your platform and available on Google Play Store”.
It stated the apps have been “illegally and deceptively” utilizing NADRA’s identify and merchandise to impersonate and deceive customers with the impression that the apps have been in some method both formally linked with, authorised, or operated by NADRA, and therefore “obtain unwarranted credibility for their apps and services”.
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