Small businesses using Skype or other Microsoft services will soon have to mind their Ps and Qs — and just about every other letter or word transmitted or published as content on these platforms. A new Microsoft Service Agreement going into effect May 1, 2018 includes many changes many changes. But the one raising the […]
Apple rolled out iOS 11.3 today. Among the features are new and improved AR capabilities, health records, data privacy, Animoji, Business Chat, battery health and a few others. Whether Apple can help mainstream AR in apps is an open question and worthy of separate consideration. The two features I want to discuss here are Business
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Wow – what a time for Facebook. Yesterday we noted that The Social Network had already started to add in additional privacy and transparency tools to help reassure users in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, with more likely on the way. Now, Facebook has indeed moved on that, rolling out a refresh
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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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I’m waiting, Facebook. So far I don’t have access to the new tools you claim will make it easier for us all to control our privacy settings. As a result, I can’t do as I’ve been doing this week: using screenshots to show how to see what apps Facebook is giving your data to, or downloading
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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Amy Gesenhues is Third Door Media’s General Assignment Reporter, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed
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In the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytics scandal, and the news now that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Facebook’s use of private customer data, a lot of people are taking a minute to check the third party app settings on their Facebook profiles. Really, you should check yours. We’ll
With the rising concern over online privacy, Microsoft is taking greater steps to improve security for users of its browser. The software giant is testing out a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs which is already available on Windows Insider, its open software testing program. The new build comes with 13 bug fixes as
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With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s May 25 implementation looming, most of the attention has been focused on consumer privacy as it relates to visiting websites or mobile apps or targeting by web-based ads. But Over-the-Top (OTT) online television services and net-connected TVs are booming, and those platforms are starting to become a focus
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