CMA demands new laws to rein in Facebook and Google
The competition watchdog is calling on the Government to introduce tough new laws to break the stranglehold Google and Facebook…
Germans stomp on Facebook over ‘illicit’ data sharing
The German high court has upheld an order for Facebook to stop the “illicit” practice of collecting and using customers’…
Google must ditch ‘forced consent’, French court rules
Google has been ordered to overhaul its privacy policies to ensure the company is “crystal clear” about what it does…
New Google data model to tackle fashion industry waste
Google is beefing up its environmental credentials in a joint venture with WWF with the launch of a new data…
Google’s third-party cookies get a stay of execution
Google has finally bowed to pressure to delay the controversial Chrome update which will see the web browser block third-party…
Facebook catches coronavirus as ad revenues plummet
Covid-19 has done what no regulator, privacy group or data protection scandal has managed so far by whacking Facebook’s ad…
Google faces probe over ‘unlawful data free-for-all’
Privacy start-up Brave, a thorn in the side of tech giants since GDPR came into force, has filed a formal…
Google nemesis denounces internal data ‘free-for-all’
European data regulators are being urged to clamp down on companies sharing customer data between their subsidiary businesses in what…
Google gets green light for $2.6bn Looker acquisition
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has kicked into touch concerns over Google’s stranglehold on the big data analytics market…
Now Google faces fresh GDPR probe into location data
Google’s advertising strapline of “Do the right thing” could not be less apposite when it comes to the tech giant’s privacy…