Facebook privacy update is ‘just a regulatory sweetener’
Facebook’s latest privacy overhaul – in which it has vowed to let users stop it from tracking them when they…
Instagram axes ‘rogue’ ad partner after privacy probe
Facebook’s data governance has once again been called into question amid allegations that its Instagram division allowed a US start-up…
WhatsApp plots upgrade into multi-platform service
WhatsApp users could soon be able to access the messaging service across multiple devices in a fresh upgrade planned by…
‘Teflon Facebook’ to recruit its first chief privacy officer
Facebook has once again reinforced its Teflon image among client marketers by posting a 28% year-on-year rise in ad revenues…
Lewis: ‘It shouldn’t have taken me to tackle Facebook’
MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has joined growing calls for the Government to start “pointing the finger” at social media firms…
$5bn Facebook fine blasted as ‘just a slap on the wrist’
Under normal circumstances, the record $5bn (£4bn) fine looming over Facebook in the US would have been seen as a…
ICO funding pays off but fears grow over huge legal bills
Anyone still wondering why the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham went cap in hand to the Treasury to plead for more…
The big squeeze: digital ad duopoly to be probed at last
The Competition & Markets Authority has finally launched its investigation into the way Google and Facebook dominate the £13bn UK…
Facebook fines pile up as Italians and Germans wade in
Germany has become the second EU country in as many days to whack Facebook with a fine for dodgy governance,…
Data-driven adspend to hit $520bn as Amazon strikes
Widescale adoption of data-driven targeting techniques will fuel huge growth in global digital advertising spend – which will nearly double in value…