A lawsuit by New Mexico’s attorney general accuses a popular app maker, as well as online ad businesses run by Google and Twitter, of violating children’s privacy law. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Aaron Krolik and Michael H. Keller report: Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked…
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Some of the Mac App Store’s biggest security apps found spying on users’ browsing habits
Graeme Burton reports: A number of security apps for the Apple Mac, offered via Apple’s curated Mac App Store, have been taken down after it was found that they were spying on users’ web browsing habits. Apps by the name of Dr Unarchiver, Dr Cleaner, Adware Medic, Adware Doctor and App Uninstall have all be…
NL: Police call on youngsters to stop sexting after explosion of cases
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…
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…