Facebook is building a certification tool that will require advertisers confirm they received user permission before using emails to target advertising on the huge social network. The tool, reported earlier by TechCrunch, will be part of Facebook’s Custom Audiences program, which allows advertisers to upload lists of hashed customer data, such as email addresses. Facebook then …
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These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure. The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US lawmakers reversed Obama-era rules that forbade your …
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First, it was Cambridge Analytica. Now, it’s the ugly truth memo. What’s next? If you are finally ready to quit Facebook once and for all, you should take your data — all your posts and messages, photos and videos, friends and groups and so on — with you before you go. Thankfully, Facebook makes it easy to download your data. …
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The leaked Facebook memo, entitled “The Ugly” and penned by longtime exec Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, has upped the creepy quotient on the world’s largest social network, even as it wrangles with the current scandal about its data dealings and the work of voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica. Bosworth — who joined CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s team in 2006, ran Facebook’s ad business, …
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Apple hopes to soon make it easier for you to manage your privacy. The iPhone maker plans to roll out four privacy management tools to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect May 25. That includes the ability to get a copy of your data, request a correction to your data, deactivate your account …
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In this podcast, here’s what we’re talking about: Verizon is rumored to be reviving the Palm name for a new Android phone. Facebook sets new limits on how advertisers target users. President Trump derides Amazon’s business practices, again. Now playing: Watch this: Verizon wants to bring Palm phones back to your palms…. 4:39 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis …
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In the wake of the Facebook scandal, with 50 million users potentially having their data passed along to Cambridge Analytica and used for political profiling, many have called on people to #deletefacebook. Yep, it even has a hashtag. A new survey from the app “Blind‘ found that up to 31 percent of tech workers are planning to delete Facebook. Blind is …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Apple’s new 9.7-inch iPad, which comes with support for the Apple Pencil stylus. Facebook improves its privacy settings. The Chromebook becomes the go-to laptop for security experts. Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s new “cheaper” iPad isn’t any cheaper (The 3:59,… 4:17 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of …
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Mark Zuckerberg turned down an opportunity to come to London to give evidence in Parliament about Facebook’s part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Zuckerberg said last week he would be happy to testify in front of Congress in the US. But the Facebook CEO will not be doing the same in the UK, according to a letter the company sent …
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Twitter has confirmed a report that it’s joining Google and Facebook in banning advertisement on its site for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. As part of its commitment to “ensuring the safety of the Twitter community,” the social media site is adding a new policy prohibiting the advertisement of initial coin offerings and token sales, a Twitter representative said Monday in an …
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