Cambridge Analytica targeted people with political ads based on their denim ... its own gatekeeper" To illustrate the security risks of browser plugins, Facebook pointed to a November 2018 ...

Internal documents show Facebook staffers determined its hands-off approach to political ads and to targeting ads and other political content to users posed significant risks. A Feb. 25 ...

The FBI is running ads on Facebook in the Washington DC area ... They are very active and pose a security risk to the US and our allies,” Alan E. Kohler Jr., special agent in charge of the ...

Plaintiffs in a court case against Facebook have argued that the social network knew about the security risks that lead to a major hack in 2018 but did not warn their users about them. Facebook ...

Often revered for bringing people together, the mutual-friends feature on Facebook actually creates myriad security risks and privacy concerns according to a new study. The mutual-friends feature ...

Including ads in mobile apps poses privacy, security risks. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 03 / 120319111733.htm ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that including ads in mobile applications (apps) poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official ...

Some ads that children may be exposed to can pose significant security and privacy risks. This can be through specific banners, images, or microsites, crafted by cyber criminals to contain malware ...

Thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram have promoted ... marketing silencers to buyers who may not understand the legal risks. “You know those things that are definitely not suppressors ...

Asked about the ads' removal at a U.S. House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said the company would be consistent in taking the ...