(Source: Tech Republic) Google has improved user transparency and controls and strengthened its privacy compliance program to prepare for GDPR. With onset of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just two weeks away, Google has outlined the steps it has taken to ensure that users' data is protected under the new privacy laws. In a Friday blog post, Google announced updates to its current Privacy Policy that make it easier to understand what data the tech giant co

(Source: marketing-interactive) In the next iterations of iOS and MacOS, Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users such as ‘like’ buttons. “We’re shutting that down,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief, at WWDC. Web browser Safari will ask for permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity. Federighi said that Facebook keeps tabs on people in a number of ways that are not obvious to consumers. “We’ve