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Yandex Taxi am and Yandex Eats am misled Armenian public

Yandex Taxi am and Yandex Eats am misled Armenian public

Yandex Taxi am and Yandex Eats am initiated legal proceedings against them for unfair competition and misleading the public, the Armenian Competition Protection Commission told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Violations were caused by the fact that the mentioned companies provided insufficient information about the actions of ordering and delivery of items and food. Source link

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Google misled publishers and advertisers, unredacted lawsuit alleges

Google misled publishers and advertisers, unredacted lawsuit alleges

Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about the pricing and processes of its ad auctions, creating secret programs that deflated sales for some companies while increasing prices for buyers, according to newly unredacted allegations and details in a lawsuit by state attorneys general. Meanwhile, Google pocketed the difference between what it told publishers and advertisers that an ad cost and used the pool of money to manipulate future auctions to expand its… Source link

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Google Misled Publishers and Advertisers, Unredacted Lawsuit Alleges

Google Misled Publishers and Advertisers, Unredacted Lawsuit Alleges

Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about the pricing and processes of its ad auctions, creating secret programs that deflated sales for some companies while increasing prices for buyers, according to newly unredacted allegations and details in a lawsuit by state attorneys general. Meanwhile, Google pocketed the difference between what it told publishers and advertisers that an ad cost and used the pool of money to manipulate future auctions to expand its digital monopoly, the… Source link

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Australian judge rules Google misled Android users on data

Australian judge rules Google misled Android users on data

CANBERRA, Australia — Google broke Australian law by misleading users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices, a judge found Friday. The Federal Court decision was a partial win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the nation’s fair trade watchdog, which has been prosecuting Google for broader alleged breaches of consumer law since October 2019. Justice Thomas Thawley found that Google misled Android… Source link

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Google misled consumers over location data settings, Australia court finds

Google misled consumers over location data settings, Australia court finds

Google’s historical collection of location data has got it into hot water in Australia where a case brought by the country’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has led to a federal court ruling that the tech giant misled consumers by operating a confusing dual-layer of location settings in what the regulator describes as a “world-first enforcement action”. The case relates to personal location data collected by Google through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December… Source link

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Australia finds Google misled users over data collection

Australia finds Google misled users over data collection

A search for ‘Australia News’ on the Google homepage, arranged on a desktop computer in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. David Gray | Bloomberg via Getty Images Australia’s federal court found that Google misled users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between 2017 and 2018, the country’s competition regulator said Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) — which launched legal proceedings against Google in 2019 — said… Source link

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