Apple is allowing app developers to collect data for targeted advertising from Apple device users, in an unacknowledged shift that lets…
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Farmville-maker Zynga’s ad business in focus as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency stings
Zynga’s ad revenue will be in focus when the company reports results on Monday, as investors track the impact of recent changes in Apple’s…
Looming Apple privacy changes worry Snap despite revenue growth
On Thursday, Snap Inc., maker of the photo-messaging app Snapchat, warned that upcoming privacy changes by Apple could hurt Snap’s ad…
Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic
Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…
Apple launches new website devoted to privacy, showing off features of iPhones and Macs
The feature comes as Apple contrast itself vs. companies like Facebook and Google, which rely on collecting data about their users and making it available to advertisers…
Facebook says Russian firms ‘scraped’ data, including users’ photos to build facial recognition profiles for Russian government
Facebook removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government…
FBI investigating Facebook security breach where attackers accessed 30 million users’ personal information
Facebook revealed on Friday that a previously announced security breach on its platform…
Facebook discovers security breach affecting 50 million users
Facebook Inc. has discovered a security flaw affecting about 50 million user accounts…
Facebook is giving advertisers access to users’ shadow contact information
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor…
42% of U.S. users have ‘taken a break’ from Facebook; 28% have deleted the Facebook app in the past year
Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship…
Apple changes iOS 9 policy to prevent advertisers from seeing user’s installed apps
Apple is planning to introduce some important new policy changes…
Analyst: Apple to launch ad-supported ‘iRadio’ music streaming service next year, before ‘Apple iTV’
Changes in iTunes 11 suggest iRadio music streaming will arrive soon…
Why smart retailers lust over Mac, iPhone, and iPad users
Defining the characteristics and behavior of the Apple demographic…
