How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector
The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet By: Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Simon Fondrie-Teitler,…
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Irish regulator orders Meta to suspend data transfers to US
Meta, the Facebook owner, is under threat from Ireland's data regulator. They will order Meta to stop data transfers to the United States.
What does GDPR mean in practise?
Many businesses thought that by adding Cookie consent banners to their web pages and opt-in forms for email newsletter subscriptions they have satisfied…
Cookies: I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegally
Alphabet and Meta and were both heavily fined for using cookies illegally at the tail end of 2021 by the French data protection authority.
Virtual influencers are here, but should Meta really be setting the ethical ground rules?
Earlier this month, Meta announced it is working on a set of ethical guidelines for “virtual influencers” – animated, typically computer-generated, characters designed to attract attention on social media.
Super apps – The platform for the post-app era
The world’s largest social media companies could evolve into super apps over the next few years. They will be able to facilitate a greater number of…
Apple’s app tracking popup reportedly costs social media platforms nearly $10 billion
A report by the Financial Times showed that Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter lost approximately $9.85 billion in revenue due to Apple’s privacy changes.
So Meta it hurts? Putting Facebook’s Metaverse in perspective
No article on the metaverse would be complete without a mention of the 1992 novel Snow Crash , in which Neal Stephenson coined the term.
Facebook’s Outage shows how Businesses depend on it
Tomiwa Ibukunle is a 21-year old entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria. She started her clothing and accessories company two months ago.
Inital numbers show that 88% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
Numbers by the data analytics firm Flurry show that just 12% of iPhone users wordlwide actively opt into app tracking.