A hacker has found that a Facebook quiz has exposed the information of more than 120 million monthly users— even after they deleted the app. Inti De Ceukelaire, a hacker at Securinti, wrote in a Medium post that Nametests.com, the website behind the quizzes, recently fixed...
Eyeing the caliber of products pitched to Facebook users through its newsfeed, the social media firm said this week that it will give the boot to companies that hawk items that are sub-par in quality or do not arrive on time. On Tuesday (June 12),...
The Washington Attorney General is suing Facebook and Google over political ads that ran in the state. According to TechCrunch, both sites are accused of receiving millions for political advertising purposes in the state, but they never published related information, such as the advertiser’s address....
London-based multinational advertising and public relations company WPP’s sneeze shows a flu spreading across the advertising sector, and the malaise is borne in part by bits and bytes. In fact, it looks like the traditional middlemen — the big advertising agencies like WPP, Omnicom and...
November 05, 2018
There are only hours to go before the U.S. midterm elections. Much is at stake, but beyond who controls the House and Senate, social media and political ads are still being trolled, despite the efforts of Facebook. Jumio’s Chief Product Officer Philipp Pointner tells Karen Webster that social media firms should treat creating an ad the same way banks treat new account creations — trusting, but verifying, who’s making the buy.
June 29, 2018
A hacker has found that a Facebook quiz has exposed the information of more than 120 million monthly users— even after they deleted the app. Inti De Ceukelaire, a hacker at Securinti, wrote in a Medium post that Nametests.com, the website behind the quizzes, recently fixed a flaw that publicly exposed the information. De Ceukelaire started […]
June 12, 2018
Eyeing the caliber of products pitched to Facebook users through its newsfeed, the social media firm said this week that it will give the boot to companies that hawk items...
June 06, 2018
The Washington Attorney General is suing Facebook and Google over political ads that ran in the state. According to TechCrunch, both sites are accused of receiving millions for political advertising...
