YouTube will have to pay $170 million because it broke federal law by collecting personal information about children. Federal Trade Commission announced that YouTube had been accused of tracking viewers of children’s channels using cookies without parental consent and…
Who would have thought Google would be fined a hefty amount for target marketing.
But if sources are to be believed, YouTube has been collecting kid’s information without a parent’s consent.
Federal Trade Commission has fined Google a sum of $170M after finding…
The company announced that the facial recognition feature is now available for all its users. Still, the social media giant mentioned it would keep its capabilities turned off by default. Facebook previously called the feature “tag suggestions.” The platform used face…
Google has come out with the much-awaited news of a separate YouTube site for kids. This news comes as a consequence of an accusation on Google for violating a kid’s privacy policy.
If you are familiar with the popular YouTube Kids’ app, then this site will be a browser…
A brand-new study published in the Clinical Psychological Science has shocked parents and experts across the world, by stating the minimum to no repercussions of tech time on teenagers.
The study was performed on young teens, and their smartphone usage to identify if time…
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, wrote that cyber-attacks “can affect every one of us”. The official mentioned that “For NATO, a serious cyber-attack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty. This is our collective defense commitment where an attack…
Gone are the days when tech-savvy kids could manipulate parents on digital platforms. Now, parents have more authority and power over a child’s phone activities through parental controls.
To take another step forward, Bit Guardian introduced a brand new functionality- App…
Users from three countries to control personal data shared by other websites and apps with Facebook
August 20, 2019
Facebook’s policies changed to allow users see and control the data other websites and apps share with the social network, in order to improve targeted advertising.
Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, and David Baser, Director of Product Management published this…
The communications watchdog in Russia – Roscomnadzor, announced that it had asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube platform.
The request comes after thousands of Russians went on the streets on Saturday, in what the observers called the…
As if dating sites weren’t already struggling with a bad reputation about the category of people approaching such portals for their entertainment. Now, to add on to the miseries of dating app users, the FBI has warned users looking for romance on such sites to be wary…
