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Cookie tracking: France will fine Google and Facebook

Cookie tracking brings important fines for Google and Facebook. They made it too difficult for French users to reject the…

2 years ago

Meta tries to stop phishing on Facebook and Instagram

Meta filed a lawsuit in California court to stop phishing attacks that target its users on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and…

2 years ago

Dark patterns to become illegal in the EU countries

A key European Parliament committee agreed to a ban on dark patterns that trick web users. This could spell trouble…

2 years ago

Third party cookies die. Will we live an ad free life?

For most of us - online users, and our privacy, an ad free life would be the best. Just imagine…

2 years ago

Consumer privacy: EU might allow groups act against Facebook

Europe's top adviser says that consumer groups should be allowed to act against Facebook for violating consumer privacy. Read more.

2 years ago

CMA: Facebook has too much control on display advertising

Facebook's acquisition of Giphy reduced competition in the display advertising market. Thus, Giphy is no longer a potential challenger. Learn…

2 years ago

UK obtained pledges on browser cookies from Google

Google brings more restrictions on its use of data collected by browser cookies. Thus it addressed concerns raised by Britain's…

2 years ago

Increasing ad sales and AI make Baidu beat estimates

Ad sales helped Baidu, China's search engine, beat the Wall Street expectations. The company reported revenue above estimates. Learn more…

2 years ago

New baiting attack reaches victims mainly via Gmail

A baiting attack is using mainly Gmail addresses to reach its victims, as these attacks are on the rise all…

2 years ago

One step forward: No more facial recognition, on Facebook

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system. This happens because of the growing societal concerns about the use of…

3 years ago