The Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter, has been passed by Parliament, courting controversy with some privacy campaigners calling it the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”.
Facebook has discovered three more errors in its ad metrics, following an investigation into how it inflated the average number of times video ads were viewed.
The World Health Organinzation (WHO) is urging governments to take active measures of reducing the ads volume circulating in the social media.
Facebook has blocked insurance firm Admiral’s new scheme to assess the personalities of first-time drivers by analysing their Facebook profiles, citing privacy concerns.
Hundreds of thousands of devices such as webcams and DVRs were infected with malicious code to create a so-called ‘botnet’ to target leading sites last week.
UK consumers are more annoyed by online ads than their European counterparts, according to a report from Adobe.
The annual cost of fraud and cybercrime in the UK is £10.9bn – the equivalent of £210 per adult, according to new research.
Oliver Gold, Commercial Director at YOC considers the implications for ads across mobile devices now that the EU has outlawed network wide ad blocking. Does it mean that advertisers will carry on as they have been doing before with pushing out unwanted and unwelcome ads to consumers or does it mean that ad tech companies … [Read more…]
UK government spy agencies broke privacy rules by collecting large amounts of UK citizens’ data without adequate oversight, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled.
Lee Chadwick at CommuniGator examines new EU data protection laws that are keeping B2B marketers awake at night – and how they can invigorate customer conversion.