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iTWire Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:16 Reset Australia says Facebook allows you to target ‘teens interested in smoking’ for $127 Featured Image from Reset Australia website and modified with images from Pixabay Reset Australia is demanding greater data protections for teenagers after it uncovered a Facebook loophole that allows teenagers to be profiled and targeted with advertising based on a range of age inappropriate interests, such as alcohol, smoking, gambling, a...

Graphic Online BY: bbc.com Category: International News An ad including a vape pen, targeting teenage children Facebook identified as interested in smoking, was approved 30.5k Shares 705 Facebook approved adverts targeting teenage children interested in gambling, smoking and extreme weight loss, a report says. Research by the lobby group Reset Australia created a Facebook page under the name Ozzie News Network to explore the advertising options. And it was able to create targeted ads, based o...

Reset Australia Reset Australia is demanding greater data protections for teenagers after it uncovered a Facebook loophole that allows teenagers to be profiled and targeted with advertising based on a range of age inappropriate interests, such as alcohol, smoking, gambling, and extreme weight loss. Reset Australia found it costs advertisers $127 to target 1000 underage profiles with an interest in smoking, $38 to target 1000 underage profiles interested in extreme weight loss, and just $3 to ta...

Grant Programme for Consumer IoT Assurance Schemes 2020/21 A grant-making programme to support the development of industry-led assurance schemes for consumer IoT security, including details of the successful bids. From: Documents Applications to this programme have now closed. Product assurance schemes help consumers make better purchasing decisions in a crowded market. They are a statement of confidence in a product’s ability to keep a person safe (for a given threat model). The better t...

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: three of the UK’s top watchdogs have joined forces to tighten digital and online services regulation; streaming platform Twitch is believed to be trialling a new tool to help match advertisers with suitable partners; and the eSports and games streaming industry is expected to grow to USD $3.5bn in value by 2025.   UK regulators join forces against Big Tech Three of the UK’s biggest consumer and industry authorities have joined forces to take on Big Te...

Three major UK watchdogs have outlined their “joined-up” approach to digital regulation as authorities prepare to crack down on Big Tech.

The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) today outlined its priorities for the coming year, marking a step-change in coordination of regulation...

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham warns that 'internet was not made for children'

Is growing up immersed in screens damaging our children? Far from technology being harmful for children, some thinkers argue that it is actively beneficial, teaching them the social skills we fear they are losing.  In April 2019, eight months before the emergence of the new virus that would upend our lives, the World Health Organisation declared children under five should spend no more than one hour a day looking at screen-based technology.  Nearly two years and one pandemic later, sc...

The changes will be enforced today to all of TikToks users around the world. Childrens charity NSPCC has praised the packaged of updates.