The Facebook Files: HUD Investigation Into Facebook Data Practices Appears to Continue
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's investigation into data usage at Facebook related to housing and financial services advertising appears ...
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The Facebook Files: Facebook Built a Bot to Prevent Targeting of Credit Ads — and It Failed
PREMIUM - Facebook built a bot called a "classifier" in order to identify credit, housing, and employment ads, in order ...
The Facebook Files: Here’s the Financial User Data Facebook Really Is — and Is Not — Sharing
There are boundaries, with a fair amount of grey areas, around what financial data Facebook will share with its partners, ...
Expectations Low for Facebook’s Blockchain Initiative
Long-time fintech analysts have low expectations for Facebook's newly unveiled blockchain initiative to be headed by PayPal's former president. Further, ...
Facebook Goes Hard at Blockchain
Facebook has formed a team to tackle blockchain initiatives. And it has put the former PayPal President David Marcus in ...
Facebook Looks to Instagram and Messenger As Payments Revenue Falls
EXCLUSIVE— Facebook is turning to its other platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for its experiments with payments, as revenue ...
Cybersecurity Funding Continues to Decline as Privacy Concerns Increase
The amount of funds invested in US-based cybersecurity companies declined for the third-straight quarter, with few large rounds in sight ...
Startup HitKey Looks to Untap the Potential of Keyboards in the Payments Industry [VIDEO]
EXCLUSIVE - There is a lot to be said about keyboard applications and their untapped potential in the payments space. ...
What Kind of Data Do Credit Monitoring Services Use to Make Customer Recommendations?
EXCLUSIVE— How do credit recommendations really work? As services such as Credit Karma, one of the larger credit monitors, increasingly ...
Crypto Prices Plunge on Google Ad Ban News
Alphabet, the parent company to Google, announced today it would ban advertising for cryptocurrency and ICOs beginning in June. On ...
