A House and Senate bipartisan data privacy bill would let users opt out of targeted ads and sue internet companies that improperly sell their data, and more
To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights … Msmash / Slashdot : Lawmakers Reignite Battle for Federal Privacy Law Ben Brody / Protocol : Congress is actually taking a go at a real pri...
An overview of Apple's three new “Child Safety” initiatives, what critics are getting wrong, and the completely legitimate slippery slope concerns from experts
*without asking.* https://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : If you must read only one article to see the absurdity of the bombastic headline regurgitation currently being spewed about Apple's...
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financial Times : Big Tech ...
A look at allegations in Texas AG's antitrust suit, accusing Google of giving Facebook special privileges in exchange for not supporting a competing ad system
if you back up WhatsApp in Google, Google scans it. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...? Chris O'Brien / @obrien : Breaking: Yelp issues statement in response to state AGs' lawsuit against Google: Fuc...
Gupta Media: Facebook's worldwide CPM hit an all-time low of $1.95 on Tuesday; the average US CPM has remained below $3 since March 22, its lowest in two years
a disaster for the publishing industry. Prices for ads on Facebook & Instagram are down by more than 50% in the last month. https://twitter.com/... Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan : Near-term impact o...
Google says it will phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years
just not anytime soon Tweets: Justin Schuh / @justinschuh : We shared an update today on our plans to phase out 3P tracking from the Web over the next two years. https://blog.chromium.org/... Mengxi L...
Google and Facebook, a major presence at CPAC last year, were nowhere to be seen this year amid claims of anti-conservative bias on their platforms
OXON HILL, Md. — A year ago, attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual jamboree of the political right … Tweets: @grynbaum Tweets: Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum : Google ...
Analysis of the top 2,000 websites visited by EU and US residents shows ad trackers per page dropped 4% for EU users after GDPR and rose by 8%+ for US users
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @s8mb , @niemanlab , @carnage4life , @emollick , @willrinehart , @mattyglesias , @deaneckles , @dangillmor , and @alexstamos See also Mediagazer Tweets: Sam Bowma...
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October
awesome data for ad targeting —was fundamentally flawed. Did anybody think to check ahead of time? http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... @mikeisaac : this is actually very important. facebook,...
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft's Xbox
But Not Microsoft's Xbox — Does today's speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can't see many p...