Tag: Facebook
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Facebook adds more ad-tracking controls in the UK
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Facebook has launched a new tool that lets people see which apps, businesses and websites are sharing their information with the social network. Read via BBC News.
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Tim Berners-Lee launches ‘Contract for the Web’ to govern internet giants and governments
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee’s ‘global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone’ Read more via Computing.
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The Fallout from Facebook – Mike Gillespie posts
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie This week, following an extensive investigation into charges that Facebook Inc violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information, the Federal Trade Commission handed down a $5bn penalty to Facebook. This is by far the biggest penalty ever […]
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Mike has a few words on WhatsApp…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Mike Gillespie has taken to the blog to express his opinion of WhatsApp and the targeting of advertising. So, its official, WhatsApp users will be sent targeted advertising by 2020 It has been on the cards for a while now, indeed some might say that once Facebook acquired Whatsapp it was inevitable. After all, Facebook […]
Read MoreFacebook revisited or It is YOUR personal information; you are allowing it to be processed…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
So much has been written or compiled in the last few days about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Commentators in all fields have got a contribution; be that data privacy and protection professionals, security professionals, political commentators or any combination thereof. Whilst we don’t want to add to the morass of information in what is an […]
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