Are you happy? In the Christmas shopping season, this is more for the case for shop operators than patrons. Because what is offered to one customer as a bargain, the other gets to a much higher price – from the same shop! The principle behind this form of profit optimization is called dynamic pricing, the […]
Just A Pipe Dream: Data Protection At Online Shops Weiterlesen
Online marketing experts are trying to reach online customers efficiently and to spread advertising messages as precisely as possible. What makes sense from a marketing perspective is to target advertising as accurately as possible, however, for you as an Internet user this interferes with your privacy. Because the basis of personalized advertising is online tracking
Data Abuse: From Online Tracking To Re-Targeting – A Glossary Of Terror Weiterlesen
The 29th of October is the birthday of the Internet, on this day of the year 1969, two mainframes at American universities exchanged the first Internet message. 29 years later, Google set a milestone with the invention of their search engine. For users who took their first steps into the Internet at that time, Google
Mega Data-leech Google: Where Data Protection is Just Another Word Weiterlesen
Today, every device has to be “Smart.” So also does the TV. These modern tools are no longer just for watching TV, they connect via the Internet with YouTube, show helpful information about the current program and can be extended by apps to additional functions. Switching via voice control is also possible. This is well
Enough Is Enough: How To Stop Your Smart TV From Sending Out Data Weiterlesen
Not only hackers threaten the privacy of TV viewers. A study by eBlocker reveals how intensively manufacturers, tracking services, and TV stations can use smart TV devices to retrieve usage data from their customers or viewers and condense them into precise personality profiles. Permanent Data Flow Even in Standby Mode Based on a 2016 Samsung
TV’s are Calling Home: Samsung Smart TV Security is Absent Weiterlesen
The cliché of seniors disliking the internet is outdated. According to a study by the German digital association Bitkom, 40 percent of all people over the age of 65 actively use the Internet. When surfing the Internet, news, e-mail and online shopping among the older users is particularly popular. There is little consideration among seniors
“Dr. Google” Knows All Your Woes: No Privacy Of Patient Data On The Internet Weiterlesen
German Chancellor Merkel summed pretty much everything up with her quote “Once you buy something on the internet, you’re being chased!” (Quote from the 5th of Nov. 2014) Do you know this feeling? You are looking for a pair of shoes, rummaging around an online shop, for example Zappos – and there you have the
Shake Off Trackers: Turn Off Personalized Advertising Weiterlesen
People have been complaining about annoying online advertising for a long time. Especially it appears on Google and Facebook and leaves many of us feeling uneasy about being watched. But there is still a much more dangerous reason to steer clear of online advertising by so-called Malvertising criminals. Through so-called “Malvertising” malicious software tries to
Stowaways in Websites: Malvertising – When Malware is Lurking in Advertising Weiterlesen
Whereas children’s television watching used to be the topic of heated debates among parents and educators, today it’s smartphones, computers, and game consoles. At what age should children use digital services – and how long a day? There are no clear answers but guidelines to regulate the use of the Internet by time limits have
Kids on the Internet: What Time Limit Makes Sense For Which Age Weiterlesen
Digitization even affects the everyday lives of small children. In the face of the omnipresence of smartphones and the Internet, parents inevitably face the question of how to responsibly introduce their children to digital media. We will address some of the most important Internet for children questions in this post: How parents protect their very young
