Are you a Verizon user? You may want to check your privacy settings. The company is tracking its users by default, and many may not realize.@jasonaten shares how users can better protect their privacy by tweaking Verizon settings.https://t.co/8C18ejuQIb
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For more than a year now, one of the biggest stories in tech has been Apple’s push to require developers to request permission from users before tracking their activity. The change has serious implications for advertisers that use that data to “personalize” ads based on what they think is relevant.
Facebook has been one of the loudest voices against Apple’s initiative, known as App Tracking Transparency, even taking out full-page ads in major newspapers claiming that Apple is hurting small businesses and threatening the “free and open internet.”
The other side of the story is the effort developers and digital advertisers have put into trying to get users to allow their data to be collected. Apple allows apps to request permission to track a user’s activity and apps are allowed to collect first-party data, or data about how a user interacts with a developer’s own sites.
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