Verizon clarified this week that it still intends to share subscriber data for advertising purposes, despite reports that its new CEO Hans Vestberg, intends to stop the practice of feeding subscriber data into its media unit. Verizon subscribers will continue to get rewards in exchange for...
AOL and Yahoo parent company Oath will be paying $5 million to settle its violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 or Coppa. The attorney general’s office said that AOL, through its ad exchange, placed targeted display ads using personal data, like cookies...
The Digital Industry Group, recently criticized Australia’s proposed piracy site-block amendments in its submission to the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018 consultation. The group, whose members include Google, Instagram, Yahoo, YouTube, Redbubble, and Oath, said that tech companies have spent thousands of hours and millions...
The Wall Street Journal said this week that Yahoo still scans its users’ emails and sells whatever data it collects to advertisers. While Oath, Yahoo’s parent company, confirmed the practice, it clarified that only promotional emails from retailers are scanned and users are given the choice...
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) last Tuesday handed Yahoo’s British subsidiary a fine of £250,000 ($334,000) for its 2014 data breach that affected around 500 million users. James Dipple-Johnstone, ICO deputy commission of operations, said that Yahoo’s failings which they had identified in their report...
A coalition of Silicon Valley giants including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Oath slammed anew government requests for weaker encryption in a recent statement. The group says that new proposals that attempt to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and services all suffer from concerns that security...
Last Thursday, Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul released a joint statement asking the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee not to include the CLOUD Act in the spending bill Congress is putting together this week. It is said that the CLOUD Act would enable US...