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Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations

Bing is introducing a spam penalty against “inorganic site structure” violations, the search engine announced on Monday. The new penalty seeks to address tactics such as subdomain leasing, doorway content and sites that participate in private blog networks. Where your website ends. To provide context for its new penalty, Bing provided two examples of typical […]

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Nearly Every State Is Investigating Facebook For Potential Antitrust Violations

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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin California has not publicly said whether it would join the investigation. Chesnot / Getty Images Topline: New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that 47 states are now investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations, ramping up the legal pressure on the social network as bipartisan

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Eight Chinese tech firms placed on U.S. Entity List for their role in human rights violations against Muslim minority groups – TechCrunch

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Eight Chinese tech firms, including SenseTime and Megvii, have been added to the U.S. government Entity List for their role in enabling human rights violations against Muslim minority groups in China, including the Uighurs. The firms were among 28 total organizations, mostly Chinese government agencies, that were implicated “in the implementation of China’s campaign of

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Google to pay up to $200M fine from the FTC for alleged YouTube violations [Update]

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What you need to know A person familiar with the matter says Google has agreed to pay a fine to the FTC between $150 to $200 million. The fine is over allegations that YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The fine has been criticized as being too low and amounting to only “two

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5 Tools to Understand Facebook’s Privacy Violations and Defeat It

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Facebook is waging a war on many fronts today. It is misleading users into thinking their information is more secure than it is. It is using powerful political lobbies to influence government policies. And you can’t be anywhere on the internet without being tracked by Facebook. If you don’t know how bad the situation is,

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FTC slaps Facebook with long-awaited $5 billion fine for privacy violations

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Anticipated for months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted today to fine Facebook a record $5 billion for apparent violations of a 2011 consent decree that required the company to better protect user privacy. This is according to reports in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and AP. The commission voted 3-2, reportedly with

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Vape Advertising Violations: FDA Cracks Down on Makers, Influencers

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) went after four e-cigarette companies Friday for violating FDA requirements with their advertisements on social media, including through partnerships with “influencers.” Vape Advertising Violations The FDA said in a statement: The FDA has determined that the e-liquid products labeled and/or advertised on behalf of the companies in these social

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Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked

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A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated more than 450 comments, with rumors that many Groups had been attacked by a spammer posting violating content that resulted in the Groups being removed by Facebook. Group admins were doing their best to avoid

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