Congress isn’t done with Silicon Valley yet. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is set to hold a hearing on Sept. 26 called “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy.” “This hearing will provide leading technology companies and internet service providers an opportunity to explain their approaches to privacy, how they plan to address […]
Apple is getting serious on GDPR implementation by developers. Full article published on Compliance Junction and available here.
We at ErnieApp believe that these companies executives demonstrate to be very “savvy” in how they communicate externally on “privacy rights” and how they associate their company with “good privacy principles” but that in essence they have a fundamental hidden goal which is to maintain “as low as possible” people’s (and politicians) anxiety as regard […]
AT&T’s purchase of AppNexus has been perceived as a landmark development for the adtech sector, and widely interpreted as a precursor to a sustained assault on the duopoly’s dominance of digital ad spend. In its latest earnings call, AT&T revealed that revenue for its advertising and analytics unit, which includes the AdWorks addressable TV group, grew […]
Just a week after its $85bn Time Warner takeover was rubber-stamped, US telco AT&T is reportedly in talks to purchase adtech outfit AppNexus, in a move that would better enable it to take on the likes of Facebook and Google. Such a move would equip the telecoms giant with a firm hand in the online advertising space and […]
Amid heightened public scrutiny over online privacy, US telcos Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have pledged to stop sharing subscribers’ location data with anonymous data brokers. The policy turnaround from all four of the US’ largest wireless network providers came on the back of inquiries from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden who has been probing […]
Facebook’s relationship with partner companies came under further scrutiny, after it was found it offered deeper access to user records in a series of customised data sharing deals. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Facebook struck agreements, known internally as whitelists, with a small group of companies allowing access to users’ data including connections, phone […]
The announcement was made in annual F8 developer conference. After imitating Snapchat Stories in early 2017, WhatsApp has garnered 450 million daily active users. In last year itself, WhatsApp eclipsed the daily users of Snapchat by the month of May. At present, WhatsApp has a total user base of 1.5 billion, which is clearly more than […]
Australians are reportedly paying their telco providers for the data harvested by tech giant. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will investigate reports Google harvests huge amounts of data from Android phones, including detailed location information, after the software company Oracle revealed Google could be harvesting a gigabyte of data from devices each month. Full article published […]
Similar to voice and traditional search, Google views vision and images as fundamental shifts in search and computing. This year at the Google I/O event, the company announced a new version of Maps that goes beyond simple directions, and an updated version of Lens that will change search. The For You tab in the new […]