Google has released its annual Bad Ads Report sharing new data on how it fought bad advertising practice over the past year. Scott Spencer, Director of Product Management, Sustainable Ads, Google, discusses how the web took on inappropriate and harmful content online.
Google took down 1.7bn bad ads last year, more than double the number it took down in 2015, according to its Bad Ads Report.
Nearly a quarter (22%) of UK advertising companies have said they have already lost business or contracts as a result of the vote to leave the EU, according to new research.
Economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next 10 years, according to the 12th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, which was published this week.
The so-called snooper’s charter will now a series of new legal challenges after the EU’s highest court ruled government’s “general and indiscriminate retention” of emails is illegal.
Identity fraud and online breaches seem to be dominating the news recently, with Tesco and the National Lottery leading the way. Jeremy Newman, founder and executive director of ShowUp discusses why the password system infrastructure is failing and what needs to be done to eradicate identity fraud once and for all.
Virtual reality (VR) shopping sprees could spell the end for physical high street retailers by 2050, according to new research.
There is growing evidence of a personal data economy; a concept that puts individuals in control of their personal information and allows them to share it with businesses, brands and other trusted third parties on their own terms, according to a new free whitepaper report.
The Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter, has been passed by Parliament, courting controversy with some privacy campaigners calling it the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”.
Mark Zuckerberg has hit back against claims that soical media filtering helped Donald Trump win the US Presidential election, by tailoring personal newsfeeds to fit the views of users, rather then suggesting opposing perspectives.