Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google is apparently allowing third-party advertisers to track consumers using the company's ad network, a practice that raised concerns from one privacy advocate.
Some of the third-party ad servers and ad agencies that Google has approved to deliver ads through its network engage in behavioral advertising practices that ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
A wiry young man with his head shaved and wearing a tank top points a handgun straight at the camera in a disturbing YouTube video. The man wears what appears to be a wedding ring, and he gazes vacantly away from the viewer.
Though it's an odd image for an advertisement, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Last week I was watching TV and saw something that really caught my eye. It was a commercial for Special K, the breakfast cereal from Kellogg, and rather than end with a plug for the product's web site -- SpecialK.com -- it advised people to search Yahoo! for "Special K" ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
About one percent of the Internet web pages are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident or another mass attack through third party advertising like what had happened with Facebook a while back, but the folks over at ha.ckers.org are reporting a case where one of their users was browsing their Yahoo Mail account and got hit with ...
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