Twitter has started prompting users to enable ad tracking if their device runs iOS 14.5. As part of the recent update, Apple forces all apps to ask for permission before they track users for ad purposes.
A major effect of this is a widened gap between the rich and poor as the country remains economically vulnerable, with inadequate infrastructure, erratic power supply, limited access to healthcare, education, insecurity, low broadband internet penetration and general low standard of living.
The latest data from the World Data Lab revealed that of the 209,707,456 people living in Nigeria, 89,822,903, that is about 43 per cent, live below poverty line of less than $1.90 per day.
Out of this figure, the number of poor people in rural areas is put at 56,481,799, that is 63 per cent of the total poor, while 41,406, 595, being 35 per cent represents the urban poor.
WhatsApp will begin restricting features unless you agree to Facebook’s data sharing policies
The May 15th deadline for accepting WhatsApp’s new terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy is approaching. In an effort to ensure that people will agree to the changes, WhatsApp will begin showing persistent notifications and eventually will start restricting features to the user.
For those users who still haven’t accepted the new privacy policy change, WhatsApp has already begun showing reminders in the app over the past few weeks. These reminders will soon become persistent, according to WhatsApp.
If that doesn’t convince the user, WhatsApp will gradually start limiting core functionalities of the messaging service, which include:
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//]]>// >By John P. Mello Jr.
May 11, 2021 4:00 AM PT
More than 90 percent of U.S. users of the latest version of Apple s mobile operating system are taking advantage of a new feature to block an application s ability to track their activity on their phones. This is bad news for advertisers.
According to research updated Saturday by Flurry, an analytics company owned by the Verizon Media Group, 96 percent of U.S. users of iOS 14.5 blocked app tracking using the new App Tracking Transparency feature. Worldwide, advertisers fared slightly better with 88 percent of users shutting down application tracking on their phones.