Tech giants lobby Brussels ‘through the back door’
The length that US tech giants will go to ensure they have huge influence in Brussels has been laid bare,…
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Last orders: Call for curbs on £6bn alcohol marketing
The Government is being urged to include alcohol marketing in the new crackdown on advertising so-called junk food, on the…
‘Advertising’s value exchange is broken; adapt or die’
Brand owners must ditch plans to find the latest cookie workaround and rethink what it means to deliver value through…
Top brands face official probe for illegal consent cookies
More than 400 companies – including major brands – are facing GDPR investigations across Europe for using unlawful cookie banners to…
Let us decide on privacy measures, public urges firms
Apple’s blanket ban on so-called email tracking pixels – a invisible device which tracks whether email marketing campaigns have been…
Ditch murky data capture and give us control, say Brits
The days of companies using “smoke and mirrors” techniques to railroad consumers into handing over their online browsing data could…
More than 1,100 scam ads reported to ASA since June
The Advertising Standards Authority and the online platforms it oversees are in an “arms race” against scammers, with the regulator…
Warning for all data firms as Amazon faces €746m fine
The proposed record-breaking €746m (£636m) GDPR fine against Amazon exposes the risks all businesses face from complaints lodged by individuals…
Up, up and away: Digital takeover to drive £27.7bn spend
UK adspend could soon be smashing through all targets, with the latest forecast predicting the sector will be putting in…
Google marches on with AI and online shopping boom
Google might be facing more investigations than seen on the True Crime Network, but parent Alphabet is marching on regardless,…