Tag Archives: Privacy

What a world. On Friday of last week, over the course of less than 24 hours, the UK’s competition authority provisionally closed its investigation into the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, and, separately, a coalition of top European publishers filed an antitrust complaint in the EU accusing Google of anticompetitive digital advertising practices. Never a dull moment. Here’s a rundown of what happened. Sandbox patrol After investigating Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies… Source link

Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies and replace them with a bundle of new standards referred to as the “Privacy Sandbox” just overcame a key regulatory hurdle. The UK’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has formally accepted Google’s commitments about how it’ll develop the new standards so they don’t harm competition or unfairly benefit the search giant’s own advertising business, the regulator announced today. Google’s plans… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Google Analytics, the world’s most widely used web analytics service developed by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), risks giving U.S. intelligence services access to French website users’ data, France’s watchdog CNIL said on Thursday. In a decision targeting an unnamed French… Source link

Use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France — after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month. The French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, said today that an unnamed local website’s use of Google Analytics is non-compliant with the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — breaching Article 44 which covers personal data transfers outside the bloc to so-called third countries which are not considered to have… Source link

Shares of Facebook parent Meta were hammered Thursday, falling 26% after the company revealed that privacy changes Apple made to its iOS platform last year have begun to sink their teeth into the social networking giant’s bottom line. During its Q4 earnings report released Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, or ATT, will cut $10 billion out of Meta’s earnings in 2022. Apps like Snap and Pinterest, however, appear to be fairing better in… Source link

American technology providers are under intense pressure in Europe after a regulator there found Google Analytics’ services illegal. The decision is expected to spur a domino effect that could result in similar restrictions for other U.S. tech providers. The recent ruling means American companies beyond big tech firms will have more difficulties moving data from Europe to the U.S., and could lead to tougher scrutiny from privacy regulators of banks, airlines and other sectors, privacy… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Jan 25 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) is slated to hire 200 engineers in Brazil this year, as it seeks to bolster its privacy, security, and anti-abusive content technologies, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, its director of engineering for Latin America, told Reuters on Tuesday. The 2023 hiring push would double the current number of engineers working in… Source link

Jan 25 (Reuters) – Allegations that Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury, an Arizona judge ruled on Tuesday, refusing to toss out a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. Google had sought summary judgment to get the case against it thrown out at an early stage. It had argued that the state had failed to show that its consumer fraud law could apply and noted that the company’s disclosures about… Source link

Google Tuesday said it’s changing its plan for replacing the cookies that help advertisers target users to a new system called Topics, in which advertisers will place ads via a limited number of topics determined by users’ browser activity. Why it matters: The new Topics proposal replaces Google’s previously-announced plan called FLoC (“Federated Learning of Cohorts”), which was criticized by privacy advocates who worried the new ad-targeting solution would inadvertently make it easier for… Source link

The District of Columbia and three states sued Google on Monday, claiming that the tech giant deceived consumers to gain access to their location data. In separate lawsuits, the attorneys general of D.C., Texas, Washington and Indiana claimed that Google misled users of Android phones and of tools like Google Maps and its search engine by continuing to track location information of users who had changed privacy setting to prevent the data collection. Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for… Source link