Google Chrome, touted as the world’s most popular browser (you’ve made it when your brand becomes a commonly-used noun), has issued patches for zero-day vulnerabilities that it or external researchers have identified as being exploited in the wild. Kudos to the research team at Google, as well as outside researchers who help identify vulnerabilities before
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Adobe Introduces Software to Replace Third-Party Cookies
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy, Websites
This week Adobe Inc. released some updated software for companies to target customers with advertising and offers using the brands’ own data as opposed to third-party cookies. More and more, third-party cookies are being eliminated from websites due to consumer concerns regarding unwanted tracking across the internet. Many web browsers already block third-party cookies, and…
FTC settles case against Vulcun for installing apps on users’ phones without permission
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
On February 5, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has agreed to settle its case against Vulcun alleging that it “unfairly replaced a popular web browser game with a program that installed applications on consumers’ mobile devices without their permission.”
Vulcun purchased the game Running Fred, which is used by over 200,000…