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…
Experts suspect Belarusian hackers for launching a malicious software attack, targeting European officials. Thus, experts say that attackers try to disrupt their efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees.
The attack, similar to other Belarusian hackers’ campaigns…
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 technology that allows Facebook facial recognition violated state privacy protection. This is what Texas attorney general’s office said and sued Meta’s Facebook.
According
to the office, the giant’s technology violated state privacy
protections.
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…
YouTube shopping should be available this year, according to Neal Mohan, chief product officer (CPO). He also revealed a few of the platform’s other plans for this year.
What would YouTube Shopping be?
Although we might think that
YouTube is going to sell…
Data transfers outside the European Union should be limited, the European Commission said. Thus, companies such as Amazon and Microsoft should guarantee that no illegal data transfer would occur to non-EU authorities. The Commission would publish the Data Act this…
Twitter filed a suit in Germany, against the online reporting rule. The rule would force social media companies to delete or block criminal content immediately. Also, they should report serious criminal offences to the police.
What might be wrong with online reporting…
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…
Three congresspersons want to stop targeted advertising. This might stop Google, Facebook and other tech giants using personal data to target their users with ads.
Stop tracking for targeted advertising
The act might just stop huge players from using users’…
