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Microsoft takes macros out of the equation for five Office apps

February 8, 2022 0 Comments ads, macros, Microsoft, motw, Reports, vba

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:16:00 +0000

Microsoft says it is going to disable macros in five Office apps by default.

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Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.

February 4, 2020 0 Comments ads, advertising, adverts, Google, Google Assistant, loretta, Marketing, Privacy, super bowl, Tracking

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:44:29 +0000

Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/a63Ljbmk14I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough

December 3, 2019 0 Comments ad fraud, ads, amazon, bots, click fraud, fake news, Google, google ad network, google ads, seo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:11:41 +0000

“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qLSQ70kb1xM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK

July 19, 2019 0 Comments ads, advertisements, adverts, facebook, facebook lawsuit, Martin lewis, scam reporting, scam reporting tool, scams, uk

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Consumer expert Martin Lewis took Facebook to court over multiple rogue ads bearing his likeness. It’s now been settled out of court, and Facebook users have a new tool in the fight against bad ads.

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