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%
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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 CMA is taking a closer look at Google and Meta’s conduct over concerns that they hampered competition in markets for online display advertising services.
The future is cookieless. This we all know. But the industry faces a long road ahead before cookieless audience targeting becomes the norm.
And other legal considerations related to misconduct reporting systems.
Europe is unable to police how big tech firms use people’s data. Three and a half years after the introduction of the GDPR, EU GDPR enforcement against Big Tech is paralysed by Ireland’s failure to deliver draft decisions on major cross-border cases.
Imperfect as they are, third-party cookies aren’t owned and controlled by any one corporation; major German publishers including the Berlin-headquartered Axel Springer – owner of Bild, Business Insider, and Politico among others – are now demanding t
The EU’s digital chief Margrethe Vestager wants the future operation of the so-called metaverse to face more scrutiny, saying that plans to create an all-encompassing virtual reality environment pose new challenges for antitrust regulators.
The Tokyo District Court has ordered two advertising companies to pay damages to a cartoonist whose work was offered illegally on now-defunct pirate manga site, Mangamura. The Court found that by posting adverts on the site, the agencies assisted in
Following investigations, the CNIL noted that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not make refusing cookies as easy as to accept them. It thus fines FACEBOOK 60 million euros and GOOGLE 150 million euros and orders them to comply
Australia has been punching way above its weight when it comes to tech regulation. Its showdown over news on Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms’ Facebook last year grabbed the world’s attention, forcing the two internet companies to back down from
Remember when the cookie age started? Guessing who really saw your ad was finally done. You no longer had to wonder whether you reached that specific target group or not. Targeted advertising lived up to its name. And now… well… what now?
Because the
Advertising technology research firm Lotame reports that Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have lost a combined $9.85 billion thus far in the third and fourth quarters of the year. The new Apple privacy policy went into effect in late April, about
Broadcasters, publishers and other media companies will soon be asked to comment on the draft European Media Freedom Act that will “ensure the integrity and independence of the European media market,” EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton sa
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:…
