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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

The logo of Google is seen at the high profile startups and high tech leaders gathering, Viva Tech,in Paris, France May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MILAN, July 14 (Reuters) – Italy’s competition authority AGCM said on Thursday it had launched an investigation against Google (GOOGL.O)for suspected abuse of its dominant position in data portability, an accusation the Alphabet unit denied. The watchdog said in a statement that… Source link

Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher’s use of the popular analytics tool to be non-compliant with EU data protection rules owing to user data being transferred to the U.S. — a country that lacks an equivalent legal framework to protect the info from being accessed by US spooks. The Garante found the web publisher’s use of Google Analytics resulted in the collection of many types of user… Source link

France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has issued updated guidance on use of Google Analytics following a decision earlier this year that found a local website’s use of the tool to be in breach of European Union law. It has also confirmed that it has since issued formal notices to other organizations to bring their use of Google Analytics into compliance. The legal issue — which does not just affect use of the popular analytics tool in France but across the entire EU —… Source link

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Drew Angerer/Getty Images A nonprofit advocacy group says a researcher’s avatar was raped in the metaverse. Other Meta users have also said they were sexually harassed or abused in the metaverse. Meta investors wanted a report on harms facing metaverse users, but shareholders rejected the idea. A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users’ behavior on Meta’s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus… Source link

The logo for Google LLC is seen at their office in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register AMSTERDAM, May 4 (Reuters) – The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced on Wednesday a preliminary investigation into Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google for possible anti-competitive practices in its Play store. Dating-app provider The Matchgroup asked the regulator to assess… Source link

Millions of dollars in student loan debt could have been cancelled already had the student loan machinery worked properly, according to a government watchdog. A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked into income-driven repayment (IDR) plans and found that as of June 1, 2021, around 7,700 student loans were due to be forgiven under existing rules — but the Education Department (ED) had only approved 157 loans to actually be discharged. “Until Education takes steps to… Source link

Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit — which accuses the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of years of inaction over what the complainants assert is “the largest data breach ever”. Today local press in Ireland reported that the Irish High Court has agreed to hear the suit. The litigation has been… 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