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Feds call for public comments on US privacy legislation ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing
Google and IAB have both presented frameworks as industry groups lobby for business-friendly data privacy...
The EU’s Competition Commissioner is investigating Amazon
The preliminary investigation questions whether access to third-party seller data is potentially...
Facebook job ads excluded women, ACLU complaint says
Federal complaint alleges that roughly 10 employers targeted job ads to male candidates across a range of openings, from construction labor to...
Top tech firms call for pro-business updates to federal data privacy laws
The companies are hoping that a federal law will override state rules like California's recently-passed pro-consumer...
Google, IAB Europe still negotiating GDPR Consent Framework implementation
Google has yet to launch its consent management...
Complaints to the ICO have spiked since GDPR came into effect in May
If related to GDPR, the bump serves as a preview to US companies that will soon be grappling with their own states' data privacy...
Study: Telecoms have been throttling YouTube and Netflix since demise of net neutrality
Even though it was happening to some degree before this year, the activity has picked up since the FCC decision to change the...
US senator calls on FTC to open new antitrust investigation against Google
Anger at Google on the right and within the administration may tip the balance of opinion toward a new inquiry....
New report: Facebook and Google among tech firms lobbying Congress for ‘kinder’ federal data privacy laws
The companies want pro-business federal rules that will override stringent state privacy laws like California's recently passed...
Facebook, Twitter & Google take down malicious content originating from Iran
Facebook took down 652 Pages, groups and accounts, Twitter removed 284 accounts and Google disabled 42 YouTube channels....
Facebook bans an app once used by 4M people, suspends 200 more
Facebook says it is notifying those who shared information with the myPersonality app, which was mostly active before 2012....
Google faces potential class action, FTC penalties for ‘surreptitious’ location tracking
A lawsuit filed last week and a request for the FTC to enforce a consent decree both stem from the AP story about location tracking....
Europe to punish sites for not removing ‘illegal content’ within one hour
Regulations set to be published must be approved by the European Parliament and then EU member states....
Google clarifies it does capture location data after Location History is turned off
The company issued a correction on a help page following a story by the AP....
The United States finally starts to talk about data privacy legislation
Despite the US Commerce Secretary's condemnation of Europe's GDPR in May, there are signs that federal and state governments are starting to...
FTC says it will take a ‘close look’ at EU antitrust fine against Google
However, it's not clear what action, if any, the FTC will...
Google hit with largest-ever $5 billion antitrust penalty in Android case
The fine could have reached $11 billion, according to EU regulation guidelines....
The spirit vs. the letter of the email law & the bits in between
There are things we all "know" that aren't actually founded in reality. Contributor Len Shneyder busts commonly held beliefs about email...
YouTube’s Copyright Match Tool finds videos uploaded without the creator’s permission
The first batch of creators to get access to the new tool will be limited to channels with more than 100,000 subscribers....
Facebook receives $664,000 UK privacy fine, which could have been $1.9B under GDPR
A US FTC investigation could also bring billions more in potential...