Meta Launches Paid Ad-Free Subscription in Europe to Satisfy Privacy Laws

Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union EU, European Economic Area EEA, and Switzerland to comply with "evolving" data protection regulations in the region. The ad-free subscription, which costs €9.99/month on the...

AI and US Election Rules

If an AI breaks the rules for you, does that count as breaking the rules? This is the essential question being taken up by the Federal Election Commission this month, and public input is needed to curtail the potential for AI to take US campaigns even more off the rails. At issue is whether...

12 Best AI-powered Customer Communication Platforms for Contact Centers

By Owais Sultan AI-powered Customer Communication Platforms will revolutionize customer interactions, streamlining support, and providing personalized, efficient service, ultimately enhancing customer… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 12 Best AI-powered Customer...

Meta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Meta is considering charging its European users around $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram. On mobile devices, the price for a single account would be higher because Meta would factor in commissions...

CVE-2023-44125

The vulnerability is the use of implicit PendingIntents without the PendingIntent.FLAGIMMUTABLE set that leads to theft and/or over-write of arbitrary files with system privilege in the Personalized service "com.lge.abba" app. The attacker's app, if it had access to app notifications, could...

CVE-2023-44125

The vulnerability is the use of implicit PendingIntents without the PendingIntent.FLAGIMMUTABLE set that leads to theft and/or over-write of arbitrary files with system privilege in the Personalized service "com.lge.abba" app. The attacker's app, if it had access to app notifications, could...

CVE-2023-44125 Personalized service - Theft and (over-)write of arbitrary files with system privilege via PendingIntent hijacking

The vulnerability is the use of implicit PendingIntents without the PendingIntent.FLAGIMMUTABLE set that leads to theft and/or over-write of arbitrary files with system privilege in the Personalized service "com.lge.abba" app. The attacker's app, if it had access to app notifications, could...

CVE-2023-44125

CVE-2023-44125 affects the Personalized service app (com.lge.abba). The issue is use of implicit PendingIntents without PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE, which could enable an attacker’s app (with access to notifications) to hijack intents, intercept them, and then obtain permissions to content provi...

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Beyond Cold Calls: Ringless Voicemail As A Personalized Customer Engagement Tool

By Owais Sultan Ringless voicemail RVM is a technology that allows businesses to deliver pre-recorded messages directly to a customer's voicemail inbox without their phone ringing. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beyond Cold Calls: Ringless Voicemail As A Personalized...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce

Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brands range of "personalized healthy fish sauces" that cater to different consumer groups, which include the Mild Fish Sauce for Kids and Mild Fish Sauce for Silver Ages. It also has a Vegan Fish Sauce. As usual, you can al...

AI and Microdirectives

Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret--and enforce--laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government and law enforcement. Youre told how to cross the street, how fast to drive on t...

Tax preparation firms shared sensitive information with Meta

A group of seven US senators has sent a letter to the heads of the IRS, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS watchdog, revealing that they have found evidence that reveals "a shocking breach of taxpayer privacy by tax prep companies and by Big Tech firms." According...

The Power of Browser Fingerprinting: Personalized UX, Fraud Detection, and Secure Logins

The case for browser fingerprinting: personalizing user experience, improving fraud detection, and optimizing login security Have you ever heard of browser fingerprinting? You should! It's an online user identification technique that collects information about a visitor's web browser and its...

CVE-2023-26051 Saleor is vulnerable to staff-authenticated error message information disclosure vulnerability via Python exceptions

Saleor is a headless, GraphQL commerce platform delivering personalized shopping experiences. Some internal Python exceptions are not handled properly and thus are returned in API as error messages. Some messages might contain sensitive information like user email address in staff-authenticated...

Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads

They say you can't have too much of a good thing. Unfortunately, this applies to ads, too, whether you think they're a good thing or not. Soon, Europes four biggest telecommunication companies--Germany's Deutsche Telekom DK, France's Orange, Spain's Telefonica, and the UK's Vodafone Group--will...

Irish Regulators Fine Facebook $414 Million for Forcing Users to Accept Targeted Ads

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta Platforms €390 million roughly $414 million over its handling of user data for serving personalized ads in what could be a major blow to its ad-fueled business model. To that end, the privacy regulator has ordered Meta Ireland to pay two fin...

TikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach

Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted ads based on users' activity on the social video platform without their permission to do so. The reversal, reported by TechCrunch, comes a day after...

Platform Update: Build the Future on Akamai

Today, technology is infused into nearly everything we do. The data behind personalized recommendations, connected devices, and wearables has changed how we engage with the world around us — whether we’re driving to a new destination, purchasing from a new retailer, or monitoring our health...

Developers Push Coding to the Edge in Akamai

The first-ever Akamai EdgeWorkers Coding Challenge gave participants the opportunity to harness the power and potential of serverless computing using the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. Winning developer teams built functions using Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV products that ranged from DNS...