Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? The New York Times Natasha Singer and Sapna Maheshwari Google is on a mission to teach children how to be safe online. That is the message behind “Be Internet Awesome,” a...
READ MOREChildren spending three hours a day on social media are more likely to be obese The Drum Taruka Srivastav A Cancer Research UK report has revealed that children who spend more than half an hour a day online are 79% more likely to be overweight or...
READ MORELinkedIn Is Going to Start Serving Native Ads to Outlook Users’ Inboxes AdWeek Lauren Johnson One year into Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, the professional social networking site is starting to serve ads targeted at the...
READ MOREWatchdog Group Files Complaint Over Google Tracking In-Person Purchases NPR CAMILA DOMONOSKE A privacy watchdog group has filed a complaint with the FTC over Google’s system for tracking purchases Internet users make in person, at physical...
READ MOREInvestigation Shows That FTC’s Reminder Letters Are Ineffective at Disclosing Paid Posts on Instagram Groups to the FTC: Enforcement Action Needed to Change Influencer Behavior on Instagram WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite warning letters from the...
READ MOREA Consumer Group Is Asking The FTC To Investigate Celebs For Shady Instagram Ads Buzzfeed Katie Notopoulos In March 2017, the Federal Trade Commission sent “educational” letters to 46 celebrities who it believed weren’t properly disclosing ads on...
READ MORE93% Of Top Celebrity Instagram Ads Aren’t Properly Disclosed Buzzfeed Katie Notopoulos Anyone who spends time on Instagram knows that celebrities are doing #ads, and also that there are lots of times a celebrity is clearly doing an ad but isn’t...
READ MOREPepsi is putting Snapchat barcodes on millions of soda bottles Digiday Tanya Dua Pepsi cans and bottles will double up as gateways to Snapchat this summer — literally. The soda maker is leaning heavily on Snapchat to promote its limited-edition...
READ MOREFacebook research targeted insecure youth, leaked documents show Independent Rachael Pells Facebook has come under fire after leaked documents revealed the social media site has been targeting potentially vulnerable children. The allegations...
READ MORENearly 40 Percent Of Publishers Ignore FTC’s Native Advertising Rules Forbes Paul Fletcher Nearly two out of five publishers using native advertising are not compliant with Federal Trade Commission guidelines for identifying such content...
READ MOREIf Your Apartment Is #SponCon You Have To Tell Us Jezebel Brendan O’Connor Tavi Gevinson recently moved into a new apartment in what real-estate developers would like you to call the Brooklyn Culture District and which is actually called...
READ MOREWhen Algorithms Don’t Account for Civil Rights The Atlantic GILLIAN B. WHITE As people live more of their lives online, the necessity of figuring out how to extend offline protections to virtual practices becomes even more important. One way in...
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