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Complaint alleges YouTube Kids pushes advertising content

The six-week-old YouTube Kids service is a “hyper-commercialized” environment that intermixes advertising and other programming in a way that deceives its target audience, a coalition of privacy and children’s advocacy groups said in a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Joining in giving YouTube Kids the big thumbs-down are the Center for Digital Democracy, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. They say the video app, targeted toward preschool children, blurs the lines between advertising and other programming using methods that are prohibited by federal regulations on commercial television.

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Ethiopian political refugee living in London alleges he was victim of … – The Independent


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Ethiopian political refugee living in London alleges he was victim of
The Independent
The charity Privacy International has made a criminal complaint to the agency's National Cyber Crime Unit following the detection of the surveillance software FinSpy on a computer belonging to Tadesse Kersmo, who fled to Britain from Ethiopia in 2009.
Ethiopian refugee 'illegally' spied on using British softwareWired.co.uk
Ethiopian refugee wants UK action over hackingModesto Bee

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Mozilla Alleges that Gamma Disguised Own Spyware as Firefox – SPAMfighter News

Mozilla Alleges that Gamma Disguised Own Spyware as Firefox
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Reportedly, Mozilla's allegation revolved around the FinSpy program of Gamma that governments and police deployed for breaking into suspects' computers while keeping it under remote control. Apparently, FinSpy pretends to be Firefox browser's copy that

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