adtech
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Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more…
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For a long time, adtech startups regularly picked up billions of dollars in venture funding in a given year.
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Patternz and Nuviad enable potentially hostile governments to track individuals by misusing ad bidding. Two companies are allegedly tracking target individuals for security services, it’s been revealed. In theory, the pair are separate firms, but in practice they appear joined at the hip.
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Privacy in the digital age Members Online
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Google is facing class-action style litigation in the Netherlands which accuses the adtech giant of breaching European privacy laws. It’s demanding Google stops tracking and profiling consumers and is also seeking compensation for what it dubs “large-scale privacy violations” of the European Union’s data protection regime.