Adalytics: ~80% of Google's video ad placements on third-party sites violated the company's promised standards between 2020 and 2023; Google disputes the claims
About 80% of Google's video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Google disputes claims
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC's GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board
Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland's DPC Source: Irish Council … .
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more
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A group of MEPs launches a website for European parliament staff and EU officials to warn about “shady lobbying” by Big Tech companies and other interest groups
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EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets
The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …
Sources: the SEC is probing Binance and its 2017 ICO of BNB, now the world's fifth biggest token, on whether BNB is a security that should have been registered
US regulators are investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. broke securities rules by selling digital tokens just as the crypto exchange …
The EU's DSA forces Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, handle misinformation during crises, and more
The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world — The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
As the EU finalizes the DMA and the DSA, a report reveals Big Tech companies' last-minute lobbying to limit crackdowns on surveillance advertising and more
A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech's frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc's digital rulebook. Sour...
The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more
Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
In its annual SEC report, Meta repeats its warning that it may be forced to shut down “significant” services in Europe if new EU data transfer rules are adopted
If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers … Source: S.E.C. .
EU approves Digital Markets Act measures: mandating social app interoperability, banning ad targeting to minors, and fines up to 20% of global annual sales
EU's proposed Big Tech regulations have become bogged down in the European Parliament and now risk being watered down and heavily delayed
Deep divides over proposed EU tech regulation likely to trigger long delays — A frank intervention in the European parliament last month captured …
Ireland's High Court rejects Facebook's bid to block Data Protection Commissioner's decision that may force the company to stop sending EU user data to the US
Ireland's High Court on Friday rejected a Facebook bid to block an inquiry by the Irish data regulator that could halt Facebook's data flows …
Research: GDPR fines have risen ~40% to €159M in the past year vs. the first 20 months the law was in force; €272M has been levied since its introduction
Data protection penalties climbed 40% in the past year, according to research — Fines imposed under the General Data …
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over its dual role as a marketplace for third-party vendors and a competitor selling its own goods
or up to $28 billion, based on 2019 numbers #tech #Antitrust #TechNews https://twitter.com/... Margrethe Vestager / @vestager : Always like the press room (better before though w...
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over its dual role as a marketplace for third-party vendors and a competitor selling its own goods
Vestager says group uses non-public data it gathers on sales on its website to inform its own-label products — The EU has hit Amazon …
EU's top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism Privacy Shield, in a ruling that could impact thousands of companies including Facebook
A highly anticipated ruling by Europe's top court has just landed — striking down a flagship EU-US data flows arrangement called Privacy Shield.
Interviews and documents show Europe's GDPR rules have been stymied by a lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources, and tech companies stalling
> https://brave.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ian Brown / @1br0wn : Half of EU #GDPR enforcers have small budgets (under €5 million). EU governments have not given their GDPR enf...