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UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking • TechCrunch

UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking • TechCrunch

Late last week it emerged Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the international body that works to guide the development of web standards — to rethink the Topics API: A key ad-targeting component of Google’s so-called “Privacy Sandbox” proposal to evolve the adtech stack Chrome supports for targeted advertising. Topics refers to an ad-targeting component of the Sandbox proposal which is based on tracking web users interests via their… Source link

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UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking • TechCrunch

UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking • TechCrunch

Late last week it emerged Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the international body that works to guide the development of web standards — to rethink the Topics API: A key ad-targeting component of Google’s so-called “Privacy Sandbox” proposal to evolve the adtech stack Chrome supports for targeted advertising. Topics refers to an ad-targeting component of the Sandbox proposal which is based on tracking web users interests via their… Source link

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Google users not given sufficient choice over its data processing, says German antitrust watchdog • TechCrunch

Google users not given sufficient choice over its data processing, says German antitrust watchdog • TechCrunch

Bad news for Google in Germany — where the antitrust watchdog has issued a preliminary statement of objections over its data processing terms and said it’s currently planning to require the tech giant to provide users with more choice over what it does with their information. The Bundeskartellamt, or Federal Cartel Office (FCO), has been investigating Google’s T&Cs for processing user data since May 2021. At issue is how Google collects and connects user data across multiple… Source link

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Google accuses India watchdog of copy-pasting EU’s Android ruling | Technology

Google accuses India watchdog of copy-pasting EU’s Android ruling | Technology

Tech giant argues a $161m fine for exploiting the market dominance of its Android operating system should be quashed. Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the US firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal papers show. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $161m for exploiting its dominant position… Source link

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Italy court rejects Google’s appeal against watchdog fine, accepts Apple’s one

Italy court rejects Google’s appeal against watchdog fine, accepts Apple’s one

MILAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) – An Italian administrative court on Friday rejected an appeal by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) against a decision by Italy’s antitrust authority to fine the group, but accepted iPhone maker Apple’s (AAPL.O) appeal against the watchdog’s ruling. Last year, Italy’s antitrust regulator fined Google and Apple 10 million euros ($10.36 million) each, claiming that the two tech groups had not provided “clear and immediate information” on how they collect and use the data of… Source link

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Irish data watchdog fines Instagram $402 million over children – Arab News

Irish data watchdog fines Instagram $402 million over children – Arab News

DUBLIN: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission on Monday said it had fined Instagram a record $402 million (405 million euros) for breaching regulations on the handling of children’s data.“We adopted our final decision last Friday and it does contain a fine of 405 million euros,” the DPC said in a statement. Full details of the decision will be published next week, it added.The DPC launched an investigation in late 2020 into concerns about how the image-sharing social media platform… Source link

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Inbox beware: Federal watchdog approves Google program to let campaigns skip spam filters

Inbox beware: Federal watchdog approves Google program to let campaigns skip spam filters

The program, as described in a proposal from attorneys from Google, would allow emails from federal campaigns and committees in the program “that meet objective security criteria” and do not otherwise break Gmail’s terms of service to “not be affected by forms of spam detection to which they would otherwise be subject” and automatically land in a user’s inbox. These political senders’ emails would continue to be directly routed to users’ inboxes, unless or until a user opts… Source link

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