Tag Archives: Privacy

By Paresh Dave and Diane Bartz (Reuters) – Google’s plan to block a popular web tracking tool called “cookies” is a source of concern for U.S. Justice Department investigators who have been asking advertising industry executives whether the move by the search giant will hobble its smaller rivals, people familiar with the situation said. Alphabet Inc’s Google a year ago announced it would ban some cookies in its Chrome browser to increase user privacy. Over the last two months, Google released… Source link

By Paresh Dave, Diane Bartz (Reuters) – Google’s plan to block a popular web tracking tool called “cookies” is a source of concern for U.S. Justice Department investigators who have been asking advertising industry executives whether the move by the search giant will hobble its smaller rivals, people familiar with the situation said. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. … Source link

An antitrust lawsuit against Google has been amended to take into account changes to ad tracking in Chrome. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced the multi-state suit, which focuses on Google’s advertising tech, in December. Meanwhile, five more attorneys general (from Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada and Puerto Rico) have joined the lawsuit, for a total of 15. The AGs claim that Google harnessed its dominant market positions in search, video and other areas to kill off smaller ad… Source link

State antitrust watchdogs are targeting Google’s plans to phase out third-party tracking cookies, building on a major lawsuit filed last year. The group of 15 attorneys general, led by Texas, updated its complaint about Google yesterday to include a more detailed case against the search giant, including new claims about Google’s strategic use of the Chrome browser. In particular, the new complaint takes aim at recent privacy updates to Chrome, which could better protect users’… Source link

DuckDuckGo is calling out Google over its new privacy labels on iOS which reveal how much data the company is collecting from iPhone users. Google’s main app and the Chrome browser app have both been updated for iOS. As is now required by Apple, Google is providing privacy labels for each of the apps which list the data they collect from users and what the data is used for. The long list of information Google collects from iOS app users is the subject of DuckDuckGo’s latest attack against… Source link

Apple has just made a striking new privacy move ahead of the launch of iOS 14.5. Apple has just hit out at data-collecting rivals such as Google and Facebook with the launch of a … [+] new database of privacy labels on its website. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Apple has just hit out at data-collecting rivals such as Google and Facebook with the launch of a new database of privacy labels on its website. Apple released privacy labels for its… Source link

Bengaluru: Google Pay, the payments app of Google has introduced features designed to improve privacy for users, allowing them control over transaction data. The features include a toggle on and off’ button which allows users to prohibit sharing of their transaction data with Google Pay, preventing it making personalised offers. According to Google Pay India, users can also deselect transactions they wouldn’t like Google Pay to use for providing… Source link

This week, Google moved to end the third party cookie as it hailed the shift to a “privacy first” web. But with rivals such as Apple using privacy as a unique selling point, what does that really mean?  This week, Google moved to end the third party cookie as it hailed the shift to a “privacy first” … [+] web. Anadolu Agency Google is one of several big tech companies that knows a lot about people—some would say too much. A large amount of… Source link

A handful of new standards will personalize ads without the privacy violations of today Photo: Christian Wiediger/Unsplash The internet is about to experience a dramatic shift toward privacy. Today, advertisers like Facebook and Google use cookies to track people as they interact with different websites, building profiles for the sake of targeted marketing. But on Wednesday, Google — a giant in the global digital ad market — announced that it would stop using this kind of system to track… Source link

Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Chrome browser said this week that it won’t deploy other web-tracking tools after phasing out third-party cookies in 2022. But that won’t transform your online experience, or stop you from seeing ads for whiskey if you’ve just looked up how to mix a Manhattan. “You’re 100% still being targeted,” Elizabeth Renieris, an affiliate of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for… Source link