Apple recently revealed a new set of rules that app developers must follow. From October, App Store developers will have to clearly and explicitly say just how users' personal data is used, secured ...

While providers of adware, or software-based marketing tools, continue to nudge their way into the reluctant embrace of online marketers, consumers have not been shy about speaking out against them, ...

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Call it spyware, or adware, or just plain annoying — but it’s everywhere. Programs designed to deliver pop-up advertising have multiplied like viruses in recent months and consumers should get used to ...

Zango Inc., the adware distributor that has tangled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), laid off 68 employees — about a third of its workforce — earlier this week, according to a senior executive ...