ICO: online ad industry ‘leaving millions at risk of harm’
The online ad industry’s “immature” understanding of data protection is triggering the mass unlawful use of consumer data for real-time…
Germans unleash GDPR blitz on behavioural ad giants
Privacy campaigners are ratcheting up their war against online behavioural advertising platforms, which they claim are in breach of GDPR,…
Google challenges EU with appeal over €1.5bn ad fine
Google has, true to form, refused to take its latest European Commission fine on the chin after the tech giant…
Data’s coming home: FA hunts glory with Google deal
The Football Association is aiming to leave no stone unturned in its quest to turn all 28 of the England…
Google Ad Exchange probe threatens online ad mayhem
The online ad industry is facing one of the biggest threats to its current business model after the Irish privacy…
Facebook and Google tighten grip on online ad market
Regulators around the world might at last have Google and Facebook in their sights but the duopoly’s grip on the…
Brussels hits Google for €1.5bn over ad market abuse
The European Commission has whacked Google with a €1.49bn (£1.28bn) fine for abusing its monopoly in online advertising, taking the…
Digital ad duopoly has stifled the industry for too long
So, at last the UK Government is going to investigate the digital advertising sector, with Chancellor Philip Hammond announcing this…
Tech giants ‘must hand over customer data to rivals’
Major tech firms should be forced to open up their customer data to competitors in “open banking”-style reforms which would…
Lords report calls for new crackdown on marketing data
Companies could be forced to publish an annual data transparency statement detailing the behavioural data they are purchasing from third…