With social buttons, cookies, and watching our online purchases, advertisers are compiling a lot more information about you than you think.
It's the holiday season, which means houses will be filled with the smell of fresh-baked cookies everywhere. Sadly, they won't be as cool as these cookies.
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The world of web behavioral tracking is a mess.
Advertisers are eager to make it more effective, governments want to regulate it, and web users are generally horrified of its potential.
But out of chaos comes opportunity, and advertising technology …
Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding. It plans to expand the company and improving its technology, which allows companies to serve more relevant display ads.
AdRoll has somewhat cracked the code in …
Want to know the price of crossing the Federal Trade Commission? How about $22.5 million?
That’s the price tag attached to Google’s subversion of Apple’s Safari privacy settings, which was discovered by Standford University researcher Jonathan Mayer back in February. …
With its stock value sinking, Facebook is looking to restore faith in its ad-based business model any way it can. It’s solution? A form of ad auctioning known as real-time bidding.
With the new system, dubbed “Facebook Exchange”, advertisers will …
Google is being investigated by regulators in the United States and the European Union for circumventing Safari’s privacy controls, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The story starts about a month ago, when the WSJ broke the news that Google …
Concerns over privacy on the web seems to be reaching a boiling point, with federal agencies and legislators looking into the policies and practices of Facebook, Apple and Google. Today the Brooklyn based startup Spotflux is announcing a $1 million …
The repercussions keep rolling in from the Wall Street Journal’s expose that detailed how Google was bypassing the default privacy settings on Apple’s Safari browser in order to place tracking cookies that followed users around the web. Matthew Soble, an …
Microsoft is leveraging an outcry over Google’s approach to privacy to smear its rival in the press. It released a blog post yesterday that claimed to have fresh findings about how Google circumvents privacy protections in Internet Explorer to place …
Microsoft published a post on its Internet Explorer Engineering Team blog today calling out Google for bypassing Internet Explorer’s privacy settings.
Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Google has been bypassing privacy settings set by users …
Welcome to another edition of yellow journalism with Julia Angwin of The Wall Street Journal. The reporter who brought you the “What They Know” series has caught Google with its pants down. The WSJ found that Google managed to …
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Facebook has responded to claims that the company can track web pages a person visits even after logging out of the social network — something that could violate a person’s privacy rights.
Yesterday, VentureBeat reported on tests run by entrepreneur/hacker …
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Updated 10pm Pacific with comments from Facebook.
Entrepreneur and hacker Nik Cubrilovic reports that Facebook can track the web pages you visit even when you are logged out of Facebook.
According to Cubrilovic’s tests, Facebook merely alters its tracking cookies …
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How much is your personal data worth? Will photos you post on Facebook or your Foursquare check-in data get you into trouble in five years’ time? In one of the standout talks at this week’s O’Reilly Strata Summit, author and …
