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News | Personal

The end looms for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe

August 4, 2023 - The EU is going toe to toe with Meta once more, with the social network giant conceding defeat yet again. After...

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News | Privacy

New tool allows you to opt out of Facebook’s targeted advertising

April 6, 2023 - After Meta (Facebook and Instagram) switched the legal basis for targeting advertising from automatic consent to opt-out, privacy watchdog noyb has...

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News | Privacy

Charities and the advertising industry: data ecosystems and privacy risks

September 17, 2020 - Data makes the world go round, more often than not via advertising and its tracking mechanisms. Whether you think making money...

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News | Privacy

Stalkerware advertising ban by Google a welcome, if incomplete, step

July 14, 2020 - On Friday, July 10, Google announced it would no longer allow advertising for spyware and similar surveillance technology—often referred to as...

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Cybercrime | News | Scams

A Look Back on Misleading Advertising

March 30, 2016 - Increasing reports on malvertising has left us with the notion that any site belonging to legitimate businesses that earn through ads...

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Explained | News

Advertising Brokers: A Background Information

October 29, 2015 - This post is intended to give you some background information about advertisement brokers, the men and women that are in the...

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Cybercrime | News

The Grey Side of Mobile Advertising

July 2, 2015 - Mobile advertising is a headache because of its intrusiveness, the amount of bandwidth used, and other unexpected nefarious behaviors. I get...

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Cybercrime | News | Privacy

Advertising: The Digital Turf War on your Desktop

June 22, 2015 - Hello! Here’s your computer after ten minutes on the Internet: This nightmarish vision of “Buy all the things” is a very old...

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Cybercrime | News | Privacy

AdChoices, interest based advertising

June 19, 2015 - Did you ever notice the AdChoices icon while you were surfing? Ads like these show up all across the Internet. Sometimes...

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