Tech companies are becoming more transparent about how they're collecting your data and what it's being used for. This comes as Facebook admits it's been tracking what you do outside of its app and ...

Facebook argues that tracking user behavior across apps and websites allows it to serve up personalized ads that are helpful to consumers. While an upcoming iOS update will make this functionality opt ...

In today’s hyper-connected world, social media giants like Facebook are constantly collecting data about your online and offline activities. From the websites you visit to your exact location, ...

Those changes apply to all developers, but Facebook seems to be taking it personally. And the company has been making those feelings known. Facebook took out full-page ads back in December, claiming ...

Users will be able to opt out of Facebook and Instagram user-tracking, but only in the EU. The reason is due to the EU regulators forcing Meta’s hand. Meta is reportedly making it difficult for users ...

If your company posts videos on its website and uses a Facebook tracking pixel in them to transmit data to Facebook for advertising purposes, your company could find itself on the receiving end of a ...

Facebook plans to appeal an order by a court in Belgium that banned it from tracking people who are not signed on to the social networking website. The dispute largely hinges around Facebook’s use of ...

Now that iOS 14.5 has been released to the public, we’re starting to get a closer look at how various companies are implementing the new App Tracking Transparency privacy requirement. Perhaps most ...

With iOS 14.5 released to the public earlier this year, iPhone and iPad users now have the ability to easily opt out of cross-site and cross-app tracking and targeting. New data from analytics firm ...

While the PR and media layer of Apple’s dispute with Facebook over user tracking by apps may still be going, at a strategic level the drama’s pretty much over, and it’s looking like Apple won. In a ...

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Last week, Apple released iOS 14.5, and with it a new feature that sent online advertisers scrambling: For the first time, users can tell apps not to track their activity across different sites and ...