US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that sets out criteria for assessing the risks of apps associated with foreign opponents.Biden also revoked and replaced three executive orders from former President Donald Trump that sought to ban transactions with TikTok and WeChat in the US. One of the decrees also aimed to block TikTok, which led to a lengthy legal battle.

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Tiktok gave itself permission to collect biometric data on us users. A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content.

When launching an advertising campaign on the Internet, you always wonder which pricing model is best to choose. It is especially difficult to decide for novice advertisers or those who work with an offer that is completely new to them. In the meantime, many parameters in the campaign settings depend on this decision, as well as the results that can be expected from it.

TWITTER HAS STARTED TESTING A PAID SUBSCRIPTION WITH ADVANCED FEATURES. Twitter has started testing the paid version of Twitter Blue ― you can change the standard blue color of the app, as well as cancel tweets sending.AMAZON IS NOW LETTING INDIANS READ MAGAZINE ARTICLES IN ITS SHOPPING APP

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GOOGLE ADS ANNOUNCED NEW WAYS TO GROW THE APP BUSINESS. What’s new: launching app campaigns on desktop, creation and change of events in Google Analytics without code updates, deep link validator and impact calculator, and data-driven attribution for campaigns with deep links.

CPM in advertising. What payment model should one choose for the ad campaign? There are many criteria to consider before answering this question. First of all, we would like to note that there are no bad models. There are just campaigns set up somewhat incorrectly.

WHATSAPP WILL GRADUALLY STOP YOU CALLING OR MESSAGING CONTACTS IF YOU DON'T AGREE TO ITS NEW PRIVACY POLICY. Users will only be able to respond to incoming messages via notifications and will not be able to write anything themselves. Then, after a few weeks, that function will be shut down for them as well. Within 120 days the accounts will not be disabled so that users can adopt the privacy policy. The update will come into force on 15 May.

GOOGLE TESTS TRENDING SEARCHES IN GOOGLE DISCOVER. Google seems to be testing trending searches in the Google Discover feed. When you click on a search phrase in this trending searches box, it takes you to a search in Google for that term. That is one way for Google to gain more search query volume out of a feature that requires zero search.

FACEBOOK ADVERTISING REVENUE ALMOST DOUBLED. Growth was driven by a 30% year-over-year increase in the average price per ad and a 12% increase in the number of ads delivered. The company anticipates increasing obstacles to the development of advertising targeting in 2021 due to many changes, in particular the recently released iOS 14.5 update.

WORDPRESS PROPOSES BLOCKING GOOGLE’S FLOC.One of the WordPress Core developers has put forward a proposal to block the controversial technology by default. For those users who want to enable FLoC, it is suggested to do it yourself in the blog settings with a special switch.

DISNEY AND AD-TECH FIRMS AGREE TO PRIVACY CHANGES FOR CHILDREN’S APPS. The Federal Court of California definitively approved the class actions against Disney, ViacomCBS and other companies. The protection must be implemented both at the application developer level and at the SDK level. In legal settlements that could reshape the children’s app market, Disney, Viacom and 10 advertising technology firms have agreed to remove certain advertising software from children’s apps to address accusations that they violated the privacy of millions of youngsters.