Bing now lets you tag friends in Facebook searches

 

On Monday (30/07), Bing announced a change in its search engine to make it more social. The tool Microsoft now lets you tag friends in Facebook during consultations, so they help with the results.

When you want to look for something on Bing, the user can type the name of up to five friends from Facebook in the search bar. With prior approval, the matter is posted in the Timeline and the selected contacts are notified.

The feature is part of a package of changes announced by Microsoft to take effect this year. Facebook, who has a partnership, it will be increasingly added to the Bing.

The news has not arrived in Brazil, and there is no information about when to come here.

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Google admits that deleted data is not collected by Street View

The Google said on Friday (27/07) has not fulfilled its promise to erase all personal data that its Street View service cars collected in England and other countries in 2010.

The U.S. company admitted at the time that their vehicles, which photographed the city for the service, had collected accident data wireless networks considered more than 30 countries.

The non-fulfillment of the promise to delete all information has been notified to the regulator of the sector in England (ICO), which states that the fulfillment of the promise breaks the agreement signed by Google in 2010.

"The ICO was clear that this information should never have been collected in the first place, and that if the company does not delete them as promised, is cause for concern," the organization said.

According to the legal counsel of Google's global privacy, Peter Fleischer, the company apologizes for the error. The search giant also said it was in the process of notification to the competent authorities in other countries.

The ICO told Google that should provide the data immediately so they can be subjected to forensic analysis, before the ICO ruling on the need for the course of action.

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