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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 21, 2019
The European Commission is hardly afraid to hand out hefty fines to tech firms, as Google knows as well as any company. In case Google was in need of a reminder, though, European Union regulators smacked the company with a fine of 1.49...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 15, 2016
Major entities are taking steps to crack down on the proliferation of fake news, and you can count Google among them. The sultan of search is putting together a new policy that would prevent websites from misrepresenting content on its...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 16, 2016
Whenever I give advice on keeping Windows secure from the many threats on the web, I preface things by saying that even the safest computing habits aren't enough these days. Simply visiting a compromised website can get your system...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, Jan 19, 2014
You know what really grinds our gears? Bad ads. Online advertising makes most of the free content on the Internet (such as the words you’re reading right now) possible, but there are plenty of bad actors that abuse advertising tools to spam, trick, or deliver malicious content to users...
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Michael Santo - Thu, Mar 12, 2009
On Wednesday, Google unveiled what it called "interest-based" advertising. In reality, what they really unveiled was behaviorally targeted ads. And that has some privacy advocates crying foul. The "interest-based" ads will initially appear on YouTube and other Google partner sites. Here's the reason behind the initiative; it's all about the...
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