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In a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for an investigation of Google’s alleged manipulation of the marketplace for online ads, opening the door for a new federal regulator for digital advertising markets. Warren’s letter focuses on a program called “Project Bernanke,” revealed in April as part of a lawsuit against Google led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Under that program, Google allegedly used… Source link

India’s antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into allegations that Google has abused the dominant position of Android in the country’s smart TV market. The news comes hours after the European Union opened a formal antitrust investigation into allegations that Google abuses its leading role in the advertising-technology sector. In its initial review, the Competition Commission of India, which began looking into these allegations last year, said Google had… Source link

The formal investigation, which follows a preliminary probe that began in 2019, will examine whether Google (GOOGL) is distorting competition by restricting access to user data for advertising purposes, while reserving such data for its own use, the European Commission said on Tuesday. “Google collects data to be used for targeted advertising purposes, it sells advertising space and also acts as an online advertising intermediary. So Google is present at almost all levels of the supply chain… Source link

The Guardian There’s another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus ‘Climate change is invisible, in everyday political consciousness, because it occurs on a scale too vast in time and space to see with the naked eye and because it concerns imperceptible phenomena such as atmospheric… Source link

Bloomberg Fight Between Commodities Giants and Shippers Leaves Seafarers Stuck (Bloomberg) — A standoff between commodities giants and shipping companies is prolonging the labor crisis at sea, with an estimated 200,000 seafarers still stuck on their vessels beyond the expiration of their contracts and past the requirements of globally accepted safety standards. In an effort to keep deliveries of food, fuel and other raw materials on schedule, some of the big commodities firms are avoiding… Source link

Russia has opened an extraordinary posthumous criminal investigation into whether a father killed by his three daughters was — as they claim — an evil sex abuser and torturer. The sisters have claimed they were raped and violated by Mikhail Khachaturyan, 57. A campaign is underway to drop murder accusations against the two older siblings, who were all in their teens when their father was killed with his own hunting knife as he slept. Krestina and Angelina Khachaturyan, then 19 and 18, along… Source link

Current Kansas coach Les Miles was banned from being alone with female students while he was the coach at LSU following allegations of inappropriate behavior. LSU released a 2013 internal investigation into the coach’s behavior after USA Today sued to make it public. Its release comes after the investigation’s existence became known in late February. Per USA Today’s summation of the report, Miles was issued a letter of reprimand for his behavior in addition to being ordered to not be alone… Source link

WASHINGTON — The sole Democrat elected to statewide office in Florida is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives coronavirus committee to investigate the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, for “alleged political favoritism” in coronavirus vaccine distribution. That call comes in a letter that Florida’s agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried, will send on Monday morning to Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who heads the coronavirus committee, and Rep. Steve Scalise of… Source link

George Washington University Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy Bill Kovacic provides insight into Facebook and Google facing multiple antitrust lawsuits. A union of workers at Google and its parent company Alphabet, which launched on Jan. 4, is condemning Google’s investigation of an artificial intelligence (AI) ethics researcher. Ticker Security Last Change Change % GOOGL ALPHABET INC. 1,884.15 +4.08 +0.22% Margaret Mitchell, who helped lead the company’s ethical AI team before her email… Source link

Von Miller is under a criminal investigation by the Parker Police Department on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Mike Klis of 9News in Denver reported. The department confirmed that an investigation is being done, Klis said, but didn’t give details. “We’re not commenting on [the] nature of the allegations,” Parker Police spokesman Josh Hans said, via Klis. “We haven’t completed the investigation.” Broncos Von Miller is under criminal investigation by Parker Police Department per… Source link