IBM faces lawsuit over data sharing violations
Stormy weather over weather channel website leaks
Biggish Blue is facing a fresh legal challenge concerning the alleged sharing of users' personal information by its Weather Channel website without consent.
EU wallops Facebook’s data retention policies
Zuckerberg can’t use your lunch pictures forever
The European Union's top court ruled on Friday that social networks like Facebook cannot indefinitely use people's information for ad targeting.
Apple rumoured to be getting into adverts
So much for not copying Google
Changes in iPhone privacy rules could herald a move by Apple into advertising on its iOS software.
Advertisers migrate from Apple because of no tracking policy
Jobs’ Mob does something right on Safari
Fruity cargo cult Apple is ruing the day that it did something right for users by bringing in a no tracking policy on its adverts.
UK government pulls anti-arts advert
Ad said classicists and dancers need to reskill as IT security experts
A government-backed advert that encouraged people working in the arts to reskill by turning to a career in cybersecurity has been scrapped after the culture secretary described it as "crass".
Apple slammed by advertisers
It looks like Apple is doing something good for once
A group of European digital advertising associations slammed Apple plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them across other apps and websites.
Twitter blocks state-run news from adverstising
China crises
Twitter is now blocking state-run media outlets from advertising on its platform.
Apple is killing the online advertising business
It turns out those lock-ins have a knock-on effect
Over the last few years, Apple has quietly killed off the online advertising industry, and in iOS 13, it's kneecapping the digital marketing industry completely.
Google about to flood your phone with adverts
New mobile advert apps
Google announced a bunch of new ad types today that’ll start showing up throughout its mobile products.
Google fined $1.7 billion for search ad blocks
Adsense costs Google 1.49 billion euro
Google has been fined 1.49 billion euro by the European Commission which said that the case focused on the company’s illegal practices in search advertising brokering from 2006 to 2016.