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Google faces potential class action, FTC penalties for ‘surreptitious’ location tracking

A lawsuit filed last week and a request for the FTC to enforce a consent decree both stem from the AP story about location tracking. A California resident named Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court (Patacsil v. Google, Inc.) seeking class action...
Posted On 29 Aug 2018
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Facebook is Helping Brands Skyrocket Ad Conversions by Turning Still Images Into Videos

Social media use is steadily growing each year. Research in 2017, shows that U.S. digital consumers spent an average of 2 hours and 15 minutes on social platforms every day, up 45 minutes since 2015. On average, users spent 35 minutes of that time on Facebook alone. In the past...
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Bing Now Supports JSON-LD For Schema

Jon Henshaw posted on Twitter that Bing now supports JSON-LD for Schema markup and structured data support. Search Engine Land received confirmation that Bing now supports JSON-LD, which has become the preferred markup method for most developers these days. Bing previously only...
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Google Cloud Introduces VPC Flow Logs, Allows Users to Collect Network Telemetry at Various Levels

Last Thursday, Google introduced a new feature to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) users for tracking network operations between their servers in the Google Cloud. Called VPC Flow Logs, the tool logs and monitors all network flows sent from and received by the virtual machines...
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The End is Near: Net Neutrality Rules Set to Expire on June 11

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that net neutrality protections will be repealed on June 11, 30 days after the notice was filed on Thursday. Alongside the expiration, new rules governing Internet service providers will also take effect. According to FCC...
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Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Leaked Facebook User Data Caused by Browser Vulnerability

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox might have inadvertently leaked the Facebook usernames, profile pictures and even the likes of their users because of a side-channel vulnerability. A side-channel vulnerability was discovered in a CSS3 feature dubbed the “mix-blend-mode.” This...
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