As COVID-19 cases spike in California, San Francisco has begun offering more than $1,200 in aid to undocumented and other low-income residents who would otherwise be unable to recover at home from the virus. 1
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“We created a program that provides the financial security people need to safely isolate if they test positive,” said Breed in a statement. 1
Last year, Apple had introduced a limited ad tracking feature for iOS 13 that was buried deep in your phone's privacy settings. 1iOS 14 now brings that to the forefront of your apps. 1
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This makes Apple's own IDFA obsolete as advertising agencies can't use it to precisely retarget a specific user. 1
It's important to note that this doesn't imply that apps can't track ads. 1
Over the past two days, Tang organized a campaign in front of the Facebook offices in Brussels and Amsterdam to let his message be brought over to Facebook owner Zuckerberg. 1Also, a petition was launched, #AdsZuck, to call on him, other business leaders and leaders of governments to ban personalised advertisements. 1
On Tuesday, TikTok made Ads Manager, its self-serve ad platform, globally available in a move that should help usher in more ad budgets, particularly among small and mid-size businesses. 1
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Millions of SMBs spend so much on Facebook, for example, that Facebook still brings in billions of ad dollars despite the advertiser boycott. 1
Often the names of third-party sellers on the site are an odd collection of letters that have no relation to the company’s actual name. 1
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Last fall, The Post spent $164 on Amazon to pick up a handful of products that used logos and designs from brands such as Hermès, Gucci and Louis Vuitton to determine whether they were fake. 1
Indeed, Republicans realise they could lose everything, with the presidency and Senate following the House of Representatives, which they surrendered in 2018. 1
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Walsh, who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, said: “I can tell you, publicly and privately conversations I’ve had, they’re scared shitless, all of them, any Senate Republican on the ballot. 1
Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists. 2
Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon’s most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.” 2
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Americans today are far more racially diverse, less Christian, better educated, more urbanized, and less likely to be married. 1
ID Ransomware received 100,001 submissions related to attacks by ransomware groups that targeted public- and private-sector organizations between Jan. 1, 2020, and June 30, 2020. 1
Of these submissions, 11,642 were linked to attacks by groups that overtly steal data, report Emsisoft researchers, who sought to learn how common "exfiltration and encryption" attacks are. 1
Last year, Apple had introduced a limited ad tracking feature for iOS 13 that was buried deep in your phone's privacy settings. 1iOS 14 now brings that to the forefront of your apps. 1
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This makes Apple's own IDFA obsolete as advertising agencies can't use it to precisely retarget a specific user. 1
It's important to note that this doesn't imply that apps can't track ads. 1
Bytedance is already facing a U.S. national security review for its acquisition of Musical.ly, a startup that it later merged with TikTok. 1
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Earlier this week, TikTok also drew renewed scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department over its data practices, according to children’s privacy advocates who say they were interviewed by the agencies. 2
Despite rules saying the UK should not export security goods to countries that might use them for internal repression, ministers have signed off more than £75m in such exports over the past five years to states rated “not free” by the NGO Freedom House. 1
TikTok insists that US user data is stored in the United States, with a backup in Singapore, and that it has never provided data to the Chinese government. 2
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A US TikTok ban would be a significant blow to the company, which is hugely popular with US children. 2