New battle lines appear to be being drawn up in the European Union between Facebook and Instagram owner Meta and regional users’ privacy rights.
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Somehow it took an antitrust trial to find out.
Meta and Google would owe billions to news publishers if they were fairly valuing the benefit of news content to their platforms. That is the key takeaway from a recent study from Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
$26.3 Billion. The DOJ revealed on Friday that this is the amount Google paid to secure default status on devices and browsers in 2021.
In a historic week of tech regulation on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary committee passed 6 ambitious antitrust reform bills targeting a perceived decade-long series of anticompetitive practices from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
The biggest companies in AI aren’t interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.
Our industry is in a state of flux. From regulatory oversight, to increased platform privacy functionality, to the proliferation of the walled garden, the entire ecosystem is still trying to get to grips with a rapidly changing media and marketing la
The European Media and Information Fund announces the results of its first funding round “Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe”. This Call for Proposals is permanently open and was launched on 2 November 2021. It had its first cut-off date on
On April 26 2022, an Apple-sponsored Columbia Business School paper was published, arguing that Apple has not benefited from the implementation of their new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature.
However, the paper misinterprets key points in the de
Google has shared a screenshot of its new cookie consent popup. At first, the new popup will be available on YouTube in France. But the company says it plans to roll out the new design across Google services in Europe.
Data is an essential resource with the potential to foster economic growth, competitiveness, innovation and job creation. While the volume of data is growing constantly, from 33 zettabytes generated in 2018 to an expected 175 zettabytes in 2025, 80%
Tackling the question of how our online data is managed is complicated. That's why Movement for an Open Web has produced a paper examining solutions to the problem - and why data stewardships might be our best bet.
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In recent years a substantial literature has emerged concerning bias, discrimination, and fairness in AI and machine learning. Connecting this work to existing legal non-discrimination frameworks is essential to create tools and methods that are prac
It is now just over a month since the UK's Competiton and Market Authority agreed to Google's commintments over its Privacy Sandbox proposal. In that time, Movement for an Open Web has produced an in-depth analysis of the agreement - from how it will
“Interoperability offers, without a doubt, the greatest opportunity to thread the needle between protecting consumer privacy and fostering the healthy competition our economy needs in its data-driven markets.”
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 that accuses the Data Protection Commi
Apple and Google are shaking up digital advertising with major privacy changes. How are brands responding?
The Commission has proposed today an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union:…
