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Facebook is removing the political and religious views fields among others from the "About me" page. The change is being done to make the social media platform easier to use and more streamlined.

Google will pay $391.5 million as part of its settlement with 40 U.S. states after it continued to track users' location data even after turning location tracking features off in the settings.

Meta and Google have collectively been fined $72 million in South Korea for not clearly informing users prior to collecting their data to analyze their interests and behaviors to display custom ads.

EU has formally decided to adopt the Digital Services Act, a collection of new laws that attempts to reign in user profiling for targeted ads and seeks more transparency on content algorithms.

The analyst firm, Gartner, has said that more people will opt-in to mobile app ad tracking by 2023 after experiencing untargeted ads. it comes as Apple offers iPhone users more control over data.

Facebook has announced that youngsters registering for Instagram will have their accounts set to private by default, and that it will be using AI to prevent unsolicited interactions from adults.

Spotify is preparing a new way of delivering ads to podcast listeners, using information the company knows about users to deliver targeted ads instead of preset ads that are included in the podcast.

Comcast has announced that those looking to advertise on TV can use a new service which helps better target ads at the appropriate audience. It said targeting audiences in the past was guesswork.

Twitter has issued an apology to users after security information, including phone numbers and email addresses, was inadvertently used for targeted ads. This data was not available to third parties.