Collaborate Disseminate
While most tech companies that offer free email services are moving away from email scanning as a source of information for advertisers to target users more efficiently, Oath – the Verizon subsidiary that manages AOL and Yahoo and its webmail off… Continue reading Yahoo woos advertisers with email scanning for targeted ad delivery
The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an unsettling report that the owner of Yahoo, Verizon subsidiary Oath, has been quietly analysing the emails of its 200 million users to sell to advertisers. Continue reading Why Yahoo scanning user email is no cause for panic
The service gleans information from receipts, travel itineraries, trade confirmations for online brokerages, Uber messages, auto-loan confirmations, promotions and much more. Continue reading Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting
The U.S. tech industry has largely declared it is off limits to scan emails for information to sell to advertisers. Yahoo still sees the practice as a potential gold mine. From a report: Yahoo’s owner, the Oath unit of Verizon Communications has been p… Continue reading Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers
Calm down. Michael J Fox isn’t dead.
A rumour spread across social media that the star of sitcom “Family Ties” and the “Back to the Future” movie trilogy had carked it at the age of 57.
Continue reading No, Michael J Fox isn’t dead
The death of passwords is predicted with regular frequency, but we’re still to see it actually happen. It’s possible that it will happen one day but, in the meantime, it would be helpful if popular online services would steer users towards … Continue reading Major websites still fail to steer users towards better passwords
Popstar Selena Gomez’s alleged hacker has been charged.
Are your secret password reset questions easy to answer with public information?
Continue reading 21-year-old woman charged with hacking Selena Gomez
Dixons Carphone said hackers attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards and accessed 1.2 million personal data records. The company, which was heavily criticised for poor security and fined £400,000 by the ICO in January after been hacked i… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for June 2018
Lawmakers are cracking down on sites like Mugshots.com and UnpublishArrest.com. At such a mushrooming online nexus of extortion and blackmail, will it make any difference? Continue reading When Your Arrest Photo Appears on a Mugshot Website
In earlier times, Yahoo! Messenger was one of the most widely used platforms for communication, but…
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