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Google must face a £13.6bn lawsuit alleging it has too much power over the online advertising market, a court has ruled.
Alphabet, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are undermining publishers and it's time to fight back.
There is unmitigated, giddy, dizzy pride in the Brussels antitrust bubble and among “digital do-gooders” around Europe about the stupendous innovation which is the Digital Market Act (DMA).
The TikTok ban has cleared Congress and received White House approval, putting new pressure on Bytedance to divest.
At 53 pages, the proposed American Privacy Rights Act includes requirements on data minimization, consumer rights to opt out of targeted advertising and view, correct, export or delete their data.
Today, a coalition of >30 European media organisations from 17 countries has initiated a legal action against Google, seeking damages of EUR 2.1 billion. The claim pertains to Google’s anticompetitive behaviour in “ad tech”, the various technologies
Facebook must face a collective lawsuit valued at around 3 billion pounds ($3.77 billion) over allegations the social media giant abused its dominant position to monetise users' personal data, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday.
The Template on the Audited Description of Consumer Profiling under Article 15 DMA
Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI is under US and UK antitrust scrutiny, the British regulator and a media report said on Friday, following the startup's boardroom battle that led to the sudden ouster and return of CEO Sam Altman.
Google search results have fallen off a cliff and the dark forces who control programmatic advertising appear to have turned off the taps for news publishers.
New battle lines appear to be being drawn up in the European Union between Facebook and Instagram owner Meta and regional users’ privacy rights.
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 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:…
