Heinz has unleashed a series of disturbing ads embracing the spirit of the spooky season (perhaps a little too well). Coinciding with the recent Joker: Folie à Deux hype, each creepy ad features a person in the throes of laughter, sporting a traditional ...

Google “creepy ads” and you come across the classics of the genre: the pig butchering himself, the baby getting crushed by a giant washtub, the wife getting spanked over piss-poor coffee. But there are other, more subtly creepy, ads that professional ...

Do you ever feel like your Facebook is listening to you, or watching your every move? That whenever you search for something on another website or have a conversation with a friend, the next minute you're seeing ads on Facebook for that same thing?

Samsung said in September that it would start showing ads on its Family Hub refrigerators' cover screens. According to the company, the ads are designed to

BOSTON (SHNS) – Lawmakers and civil rights leaders want to add Massachusetts to the growing list of states that are strengthening internet privacy protections for residents, as companies mine personal data for profit. “We’ve all had the experience of ...

Ads are officially coming to Snapchat, in a form the company says is not “targeted,” but Snapchat’s own terms of service suggest it could do something very much ...

European Union lawmakers are mobilizing support for a ban on tracking-based advertising to be added to a new set of Internet rules for the bloc -- which were proposed at the back end of last year but are now entering the last stretch of negotiations ahead ...

Everybody on the internet knows the feeling: the surprise appearance of an ad that reminds you of how thoroughly your online self is being watched, however opaquely, by eager marketers. But what is that feeling? Are you irritated and vaguely disturbed when ...