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German state bans Facebook pages, 'Like' buttons

...social-networking site breaks state and federal law by monitoring users for ad-targeting purposes, and has ordered all institutions to remove fan pages and... Read more

22 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Why Google and the web need the Knowledge Graph

Google's introduction of the Knowledge Graph is probably the most important thing the company has done in... Read more

17 May, 2012

Yahoo to adopt 'do-not-track' across its network

...says has been in development since last year, lets users "express their ad targeting preferences to Yahoo". Do-not-track technology has been around for... Read more

30 March, 2012 by Don Reisinger

'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question

Don't mind Google knowing your real name, or putting your photo against the keywords you search for? Or - as it turns... Read more

26 January, 2012

Privacy: what Windows Live knows about your friends

The way that Windows Live lets you control your privacy online is a model other social networks and aggregators would do... Read more

2 August, 2010
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Panel App 1.0.7

...the individual level to third parties. This data is not used for ad targeting. Opt out at any time by uninstalling the app.For more... Read more

5 April, 2012

Google jumps into TV business

Deal with US satellite broadcaster indicates how Google plans to use its £5.4bn online ad empire to conquer television Read more

3 April, 2007 by Elinor Mills

New standard fine-tunes Web ad targeting

A new way to target and track digital ads is slowly gaining industry support Read more

12 September, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Emails suggest Home Office colluded with Phorm

...BBC appear to suggest some level of collusion between Phorm, the 'behavioural' ad-targeting firm that conducted trials on BT customers without first informing them... Read more

28 April, 2009

Phorm loses top UK executives

Phorm, which provides ad-targeting technology that tracks people's behaviour online, has lost two of... Read more

18 December, 2008 by David Meyer

Google Maps gets search-related text ads

...an opportunity for Google to employ a strong geographic influence in its ad targeting algorithm, and in general, the better targeted an ad is, the... Read more

10 October, 2008 by Stephen Shankland
Facebook and the price of user privacy

Facebook and the price of user privacy

...of the news feed, and again with the introduction of its Beacon ad-targeting technology, the company seems perpetually to be fumbling the ball. One... Read more

29 February, 2008 by Aaron Greenspan

Vodafone warns of threat from Google and Apple

...can offer far more information on its users, which translates into better ad targeting. Sarin said: "I think, as an industry, this can become a... Read more

13 February, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Search engines race to update privacy policies

...it will give people the ability to opt out of the behavioral ad targeting it offers on third-party websites, and it will allow people... Read more

23 July, 2007 by Elinor Mills

Amazon makes Web-ad patent bid

The technology used to allocate display space on a Web page is the subject of a patent application by Amazon Read more

25 March, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

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