Can you get faster browsing and online privacy at the same time? It used to be that you could trust the search engines to deliver up relevant results, and the websites themselves were generally benign. But with all the personal data mining going on, you can’t really…
Zoom, which lets people make video meetings, agreed to a $85 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed that Zoom violated user privacy by collecting and sharing data with third-party software integrations.
Nevertheless, the preliminary…
An international coalition of consumer protection, digital and civil rights organizations demanded a ban on surveillance advertising.
The objection to targeted advertising is that it can be invasive and intrusive. Using collected data, marketers, advertisers, or…
A branch of the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and other important players will face a sue, for data breach. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) started the legal action last month.
Data breach and shared data
Johnny Ryan, a senior fellow of the…
You may want to block Facebook ads for so many reasons. Either because they are not relevant, annoying or promote places you are not interested in. But you wonder how you can do this effectively. Facebook has become the biggest network for connecting people. But it is also a…
Do you know what does privacy on Facebook mean? Most of us don’t. It’s common knowledge that anything we post on Facebook can be seen by friends, family members, and even our boss.
What
if we change the privacy settings on a post to “private”? Would
it be…
User data tracking helps huge companies such as Google and Facebook earn a lot of money. Besides clever marketing tactics and strategies, this is a key element to convert website visitors into customers.
So, websites are happy with it, but it turns out
to be a huge…
More and more users want to know how to block ads while browsing online for information. No one is happy when ads cover the content, right? Moreover, for more tech savvy users, ads are a source of potential threats regarding their personal data.
But how can anyone stop…
Anyone would like to disable ads when they become annoying! Most of the time they cover the interesting content or they just pop-up over a page. And we wonder why we should take these. Content producers say that they could not survive without these ads.
Still…
Advertisers might consider Facebook ads as a good solution for
their brand and products. And they use them especially when they
target people over 30. Still, even these people become annoyed at
some point and wonder how they could stop these ads from following
them.
In…
