Verizon faces GDPR probe as WhatsApp decision looms
Verizon Media, the company behind the Huffington Post, Yahoo and AOL, is facing a major GDPR investigation by the Irish…
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Top judge blasts Google for trying to dodge UK data law
Google may have paid out tens of millions of dollars to settle three legal cases in the US but remains…
ICO drops data bombshell as cookie law is overhauled
The Information Commissioner’s Office has torn up its own advice on how firms can gather data through online cookies by…
Marketers braced for fresh crackdown on online data
Marketers are facing a major new threat to how they gather online data, amid fears that so-called “implied consent” for cookies…
ICO fingered for breaching GDPR over cookie cock-up
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been forced to give itself a bollocking after admitting that its own website cookies are…
High Court blocks class action over Google tracking
The High Court has thrown out a class action against Google – led by former Which? director Richard Lloyd –…
Google summoned to High Court to defend data tracking
Google is facing its first class action in UK courts after being accused of collecting the personal data of millions…
Why GDPR could finally make online ads accountable
Almost daily, out comes a new GDPR nightmare, from the recent World Federation of Advertisers survey which revealed 70% of…
Tech and ad giants go to war on EU ePrivacy shake-up
Technology giants Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have gone to war on the EU’s overhaul of online privacy laws by…
Online giants baulk at EU plan to overhaul cookie law
Brussels giveth, Brussels taketh away, to borrow a phrase; just as B2B marketers were cheered by the European Commission’s change…