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Facebook booting data brokers, simplifying privacy tools to bolster user confidence

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Seeking to reassure users on privacy following Cambridge Analytica and the subsequent fallout, Facebook has taken two related steps. The company is simplifying its famously confusing privacy controls and ending its third party “Partner Categories” program, which allowed the importation of third party “offline” data for targeting. Facebook issued a short statement about the end of Partner […]

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Senate Judiciary Committee asks CEOs of Facebook, Google, Twitter to testify on privacy

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And now the hearings. Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it’s seeking testimony from Facebook, Google and Twitter executives on data privacy issues, triggered by the Cambridge Analytica data-mining controversy, which, as far as we know, has nothing to do with Google or Twitter. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this past weekend that

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After a week of crisis and mea culpas from Facebook, assessing the threats and exposure

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Since the Cambridge Analytica data mining revelations that broke a little over a week ago, a lot has happened. After initially seeking to minimize its role in the scandal, Facebook apologized and opened the door to being regulated. A second, related scandal has arisen around the collection of Android users’ calls and SMS histories, which

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All About the GDPR – Marketing Land

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While deregulation has been a stateside trend over the past decade, the 28 members of the European Union are gearing up for a massive increase in regulations around data privacy in the form of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — and this regulation will make a splash across the pond as well. Briefly, virtually

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Facebook quietly removes ad filter to target users based on their relationship preferences

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Facebook has quietly removed an ad filter that enabled advertisers to create campaigns targeting users based on their relationship preferences. The filter allowed advertisers to target people based on information from the “interested in” detail on their user profile. Users can select if they are interested in “women” or “men” — making it possible to

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To comply with GDPR, Google asks publishers to manage user-data consent for ad targeting in EU

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Twitter chief information security officer reportedly exiting

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Twitter’s chief information security officer is reportedly leaving the company. According to The Verge, sources say Twitter’s Chief Information Security Officer, Michael Coates, announced internally about three weeks ago that he was stepping away from his role, but there was no external announcement. The security head is reportedly leaving to start his own company. It’s

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg finally responds to Cambridge Analytica scandal, announces changes

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“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and, if we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Wednesday, five days after the company triggered a firestorm with news

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Facebook chief security officer reportedly resigns amid data controversy

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Following Facebook’s suspension of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm charged with exploiting Facebook user data, the social platform’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, is said to be leaving. According to the The New York Times, Stamos said he will be leaving by August of this year and had been clashing with executives since 2016 “over

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Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google

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Google says that there are “tens of thousands” of Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) requests filed each month in Europe. In a new blog post, the company explains that it’s updating its “Transparency Report,” which details RTBF requests, to include new categories of information. In addition to reporting aggregate data on requests, their countries of

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