Google’s decision to stop scanning Gmail users’ emails in order to target them with personalised adverts has been given a qualified welcome by privacy campaigners. The tech firm revealed the change in a blog at the end of last week. Google promised to make the move before the year’s end to bring the consumer version … Read more
Google is set to eliminate an advertising format that has raised many privacy concerns among its Gmail users. Emails will no longer be scanned in order to show users personalized ads, instead, the firm will monitor online activity, such as searches, to generated targeted ads. The change brings Gmail in line with the paid G … Read more
Google said Friday it would stop scanning the contents of Gmail users’ inboxes for ad targeting, moving to end a practice that has fueled privacy concerns since the free email service was launched. A Google statement said Gmail users would still see “personalized” ads and marketing messages but these would be based on other data, … Read more
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again – only to backpedal and endorse Yahoo Mail after she said her remark was taken out of context. Mayer spoke at a tech conference in London one day after she … Read more
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again – only to backpedal and endorse Yahoo Mail after she said her remark was taken out of context. Mayer spoke at a tech conference in London one day after she … Read more
Google says it has stopped a phishing email that reached about a million of its users. The scam claimed to come from Google Docs – a service that allows people to share and edit documents online. Users who clicked a link and followed instructions, risked giving the hackers access to their email accounts. Google said … Read more
Playwright Uncle Ebo Whyte weaves emotions, love, infidelity and professional sloppiness into a tapestry in his debut play for 2017 – Blackmail. The play title reminds me of my fondness with the word while at Korle Gonno 3 Junior High School at Mamprobi in Accra. I had wondered if there ever was any word as … Read more
Police Hospital to shut down from Friday; patients referred to 37, La & Ridge hospitals Part of the Police Hospital is to be closed to the public from Friday, February 3 to Monday, February 6, 2017. The closure is to allow management to carry out an intended fumigation at selected units and departments. The targeted … Read more
The number of people who died through vehicular accident in the year 2016 increased by 5.64 per cent on the 2015 number of people who died. 2,198 people lost their lives through vehicular accident in 2016 as against the 1,634 people who lost their lives in the year 2015. The Commander of the Motor Transport … Read more
Naked photographs of Jennifer Lawrence were leaked online after an iCloud hack in 2014 A Pennsylvania court has sentenced a man to 18 months in jail for hacking into the accounts of celebrities and stealing nude photos and videos. Ryan Collins, 36, pleaded guilty to the charges in May. He had stolen the usernames and … Read more