Facebook will stop requiring iPhone app makers to feed the company their users’ personal data for advertising as it braces for a new privacy crackdown by Apple that could cut its revenue by billions of dollars.
Nearly one in ten (87% ) of people accept privacy policies without reading them, which can take over 47 minutes to read fully and are full of jargon, according to new research.
Trump’s social media posts about coronavirus have been flagged by both Facebook and Twitter for spreading ‘potentially harmful information’.
In the same way that household-name advertising is known to fund pirate websites on the open web, the same is turning out to be true of the in-app ecosystem – and that ecosystem is booming. Peter Szyszko, CEO, White Bullet looks at how in-app is piracy’s new Wild West.
The UK government has released a mobile phone app that people in England and Wales can use to establish whether they may have been exposed to coronavirus.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have struck a deal with advertising giants over harmful content, as the tech giants attempt to restore relations hammered by this year’s advertising boycott of social media sites.
This week, the ad industry penned an open letter to Apple requesting further collaboration, urging the company to join in a collaborative cross-industry effort to develop a universal global ID solution for media and advertising.
By 2023, 65% of the world’s population will have its personal data covered under modern privacy regulations, up from 10% in 2020, according to a new report.
Facebook has announced that it will not take on any new political ads in the seven days prior to the US election in November, but will still allow existing ads to continue to be promoted and targeted at different users.
A Coventry University-led research project investigating GDPR compliance through cookies in websites and apps has launched an innovative tracking-free website, which has been designed to protect the privacy of all visitors to the project website.