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A judge has approved a settlement valued at $650 million from Facebook to end a privacy lawsuit, one which alleged the social network used facial recognition technology on user photos stored on its iPhone app without permission.

advertisement advertisement 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. advertisement advertisement In a nutshell, Apple will soon require apps that want to track user’s movements within other companies’ apps or websites to get explicit permission to do so from the user. Facebook’s apps have long done this without such explicit permissi...

17 February 2021, 10:49 am EST By iOS 14s updates are making Apples smartphone system worse. Well, thats what ad companies are currently claiming as they move into the Android system instead. Right now, some marketing companies are choosing to spend their budget on Android advertising since they claimed that Apples iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature is uncertain. (Photo : Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 11: Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address a...

Citing uncertainty over Apples iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature, some marketing firms are choosing to spend on Android advertising instead. Credit: Apple Ahead of Apples forthcoming App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5, advertisers and marketing firms are trying to determine how much this privacy feature will alter their income. Some are reportedly moving their ad spend to Android, at least for the short term, while all are waiting to see the real-world impact of th...

Citing uncertainty over Apple's iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature, some marketing firms are choosing to spend on Android advertising instead.

Apple continues working on privacy improvements in Safari as it seeks to disrupt the data industrial complex. Thinkstock Apple seems focused on building Safari to become the world’s leading privacy-focused web browser, continuing development of under-the-hood enhancements to protect private lives. Better privacy by proxy Beginning with (currently in beta) iOS 14.5, Apple is improving privacy by changing how Safari accesses Google’s Safe Browsing service. The latter warns use...

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the Google was “exploring an alternative” to to the anti-ad-tracking features that Apple will soon