Dutch police are youngsters to stop sending risque photos of themselves to others, following an ‘explosion’ of abuse this year, the AD reports. Reports of photos being placed online or used for blackmail have been coming in at the rate of three a day this year, police told the paper on Tuesday. Earlier warnings to…
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Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales
Mark Bergen and Jennifer Surane report: For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid…
Why California’s Privacy Law Won’t Hurt Facebook or Google
Antonio García Martínez writes: California, that innovative economic juggernaut that so often takes the regulatory lead on matters such as automobile emissions, is once again establishing the ground rules to a vital industry. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in June, is the improbable result of a wealthy…
Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data
Taylor Hatmaker reports: If you were on the edge of your seat wondering what Facebook’s next major consumer privacy headache would be, the wait is over! The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has deemed Facebook-owned app Onavo in violation of its App Store policies and will be giving it the boot shortly. In a statement to TechCrunch,…