Instagram to collect birth dates for youth safety, ads for age-restricted products
Facebook Inc’s Instagram said it will require birth dates from all new users starting on Wednesday, expanding the audience for ads for alcohol and other age-restricted products while offering new…
19-year-old convicted for capital market fraud, to serve 1 year jail term
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, in a notice on Tuesday that a 19-year-old man, Damilola Balogun, has been convicted over a capital market fraud. According to the notice by…
Twitter makes global changes to comply with privacy laws
Twitter Inc is updating its global privacy policy to give users more information about what data advertisers might receive and is launching a site to provide clarity on its data…
Google to bar elections ads from using political leanings, voter data globally by Jan. 2020
Alphabet Inc’s Google will stop giving advertisers the ability to target election ads using data such as public voter records and general political affiliations, the company said in a blog…
Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators, sources say
The international police organisation Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex predators, three people briefed on the matter told…
How social media sites handle political ads
Online platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain false or misleading claims ahead of the U.S. presidential election. In the…
Watchdog groups urge FTC to block Google’s Fitbit deal
Lawmakers pressed top U.S. antitrust enforcers on their probes of tech giants Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple on Wednesday, with the chair of a House subcommittee expressing frustration over…
Facebook unites payment service across apps with Facebook Pay
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram can make payments without exiting the…
China’s digital currency not seeking ‘full control’ of individuals’ details – central bank official
Chinese Central Bank chief, Yi Gang China’s proposed digitized domestic currency is not a bid to gain full control of information belonging to the general public, a senior central…