Digital ads brought Google and Meta under the magnifying glass of both the European Commission and the UK’s Market Authority. They investigate if a deal between the two giants distorted competition in the digital ad business.
Antitrust investigation for digital…
Google bans Russian state-owned media outlets from getting ads-generated money. The decision would apply on its search engine and video platform, YouTube.
Google bans Russia Today
According to Alphabet, Google decided to stop Russia Today from receiving money for…
The European Publishers Council (EPC) target Google’s advertising tech, in an antitrust complaint. They complain about search engine’s advertising business. According to the media companies, Google controls press publishers with its adtech.
The advertising…
After a big fine for its advertising cookies, Google tries again to get rid of them. France ordered Google to pay a fine of 150 million euros, earlier this month. Now, the giant announced its second try to replace these snippets.
Advertising cookies’ revenge…
Cookie tracking brings important fines for Google and Facebook. They made it too difficult for French users to reject the tracking technology, according to the French regulator.
The cookie tracking violates data privacy rules
The Commission Nationale…
Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from Chrome, collected by browser cookies. Thus it addressed concerns raised by Britain’s competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.
Browser…
Some Google ads forced the company to ban some of them for “stalkerware” apps, which can be bought and downloaded by anyone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents, who want to use them to monitor their child’s activities with the…
Australia wants to regulate the ad tech space and slams Google
September 28, 2021
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found Google has a dominant position in the ad tech space. Thus, the commission considers that the position created “systemic competition concerns.”
Google controls the ad tech space
The…
Google has made a 10 billion dollar commitment that will address the privacy risks and cybersecurity of the US government. The company plans to beef up critical infrastructure including crucial computer programs. Also, they will expand their zero-trust programs, and help…
Google
tracking
cookies will remain in place at least until 2023. The company has
delayed its plan to block third-party cookies from Chrome. These
are small bits of code that websites can set on a user’s computer.
They
work like browser “cookies” and allow…
