The Senate voted Thursday to approve a measure that could make it easier for broadband providers to sell private information about you to marketers. In a 50-48 vote, lawmakers approved a joint resolution from Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, that uses the Congressional Review Act to prevent privacy rules passed by the Federal …
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Google is taking steps to prevent ads from appearing next to hateful content. In a blog post Tuesday, Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, vowed to improve the controls and policies that keep ads from appearing alongside potentially offensive YouTube videos and other content. “Starting today, we’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content,” he said. “This …
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British retailer Marks and Spencer over the weekend became the latest company to remove its ads from Google for fear they’ll be snuggled up against extremist content. M&S joins the British government and banks RBS, Lloyds and HSBC in suspending its adverts from all of Google’s platforms in the wake of an investigation by The Times that uncovered advertisements for …
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Google is rethinking some of its advertising policies after coming under fire in the UK. Some advertising customers in the UK have pulled ads from Google-owned YouTube after some of them reportedly appeared alongside inappropriate and extremist content. The list of clients includes the British government and big brands in the UK, such as the Guardian newspaper. For example, one …
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Google is the latest tech company to try to tackle the problems of fake news and offensive content. The search giant is cracking down on search results that are upsetting or inaccurate, according to a report Tuesday by Search Engine Land. It sounds like Google is taking a long-term approach to the problem. The company has introduced a new flag …
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Republicans are doing all they can to make sure the Federal Communications Commission can’t tell broadband companies how to handle your personal data online. In the latest move, Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona on Tuesday evening introduced a resolution that would kill rules the FCC passed in October to regulate consumer privacy for internet service providers. The measure, which …
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Now playing: Watch this: YouTube TV is Google’s new live TV streaming service 1:17 YouTube is going live. Google’s massive video site will launch live TV networks with a virtual cable service in the next few months, competing with cable, satellite and online pay-TV providers like Dish’s Sling TV, Sony’s PlayStation Vue and AT&T’s DirecTV Now. “The younger generation wants …
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To all those people who can never figure out which photo they want to post from that birthday party or concert, Instagram has a suggestion: Post ’em all. The Facebook-owned app said Wednesday it will let people upload and post up to 10 videos and photos at a time. You’ll be able to swipe through them on your Instagram feed …
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Sick of having to sit through 30 seconds of boring ads before your YouTube video plays? We have good news for you. Google will scrap the unskippable 30-second advertisements that sometimes play before YouTube videos, BBC reports. The bad news? It’ll only happen next year. Shorter ad formats, such as ones that can be skipped after five seconds, will remain. …
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This may be the first time the word “sexting” has been included in an SEC filing. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has released its IPO filing, and included that tidbit about how it was first dismissed as an app for sending nudes. There’s plenty of other juicy information Snapchat shared about its business as the 5-year-old company prepares to …
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