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Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is facing a competition challenge in Europe. A coalition of digital marketing companies announced today that it’s filed a complaint with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), calling for the regulator to block implementation of the Sandbox. The coalition wants Google’s phasing out of third party tracking cookies to be put on ice to prevent the Sandbox launching… Source link

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg Google’s planned changes to advertising data were targeted by a group of rivals who pushed U.K. regulators to make the company a top antitrust… Source link

Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey answer questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Edward Lawrence with more. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Tuesday pressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on a newly revealed whistleblower complaint alleging that Facebook employees coordinate with Twitter and Google employees to make certain content moderation decisions. Hawley said a former Facebook employee “with direct knowledge of the company’s content moderation practices” contacted his… Source link

  Moscow–Russia’s search engine provider Yandex asked local antitrust authorities Wednesday to investigate Google for unfairly keeping its rivals’ services off its mobile devices. The request came with Google making recent inroads in the Russian market thanks to its popular Android-powered smartphones. The European Commission last year reopened a similar probe against the California company after initially weighing a settlement that would have allowed competitors to buy space at the top… Source link