Google disables touch function on Home Mini device after privacy concerns
Google has removed the touch-to-activate Google Assistant feature on its Home Mini smart speaker in response to privacy concerns.
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Google ‘discovers Russia-linked ads’ on YouTube and Gmail before US election
Google has reportedly discovered evidence that Russia used its platforms in a bid to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
Not all doom and gloom: Why GDPR will revolutionise marketing
Julian Saunders, founder of data management and GDPR compliance solution PORT.im, discusses how GDPR is great news for marketers
How much do you value personal data? Kaspersky puts customers to test
Last month Kaspersky set up a unique social experiment – looking at exactly what price people put on their personal mobile phone data in the modern day.
SpotX integrates with Amazon’s transparent ad marketplace
Video ad serving platform, SpotX, today announced the integration of its header bidding suite with Amazon Publisher Services’ Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM).
EU forces Amazon to pay back €250m in “illegal” back taxes
The European Commission has ordered Amazon to pay around €250m (£220m) in back taxes after finding it had benefited from an illegal sweetheart deal with Luxembourg.
US election: Facebook reveals 10m viewers saw Russian political ads
Facebook has revealed that an estimated 10 million people in the US saw at least one of the 3,000 political ads it says were bought by accounts linked to the Russian government.
Brits fearful of smart home hackers
With the announcement of the new Alexa powered devices from Amazon, and the upcoming Google hardwire event on the 4th October, new research by MoneySuperMarket reveals that the British public is far from ready to embrace smart home technology.
Top tips: How to prevent, and recover from, a social media hack
A hacked social media account can damage your reputation, especially when you’re supposed to have a certain level of social media savvy. Blaise Grimes-Viort, chief services officer at social media agency, The Social Element, offers a checklist for people to use if they want to prevent, detect or recover from, a social media hack.
Google pulls YouTube from Amazon Echo Show: “A broken user experience”
Amazon’s Echo Show has lost its ability to stream videos from YouTube, with both sides blaming the other for the issue.