Archive for Digital Updates – April
Staff / Europe’s GDPR Law Lacks Funding, Enforcement
Nearly two years ago, the EU enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was the world’s strictest online privacy regulation. Since its enactment, Google ... Read More
Staff / Texas AG Continues Antitrust Investigation into Google
Since September 2019, Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, has led a group of attorneys general across the country in an investigation into Google for potential ... Read More
Staff / News Media Alliance Joins Others to Recommend Strong Copyright Protections in the U.S.-UK Trade Agreement
On April 28, the News Media Alliance joined a group of creative-industry organizations to publish comments on the proposed trade agreement between the United States ... Read More
Staff / District Court Approves $5 Billion Settlement for Facebook’s Privacy Violations
On April 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the settlement reached last July for sanctions brought by the FTC against Facebook for ... Read More
Staff / Google Joins W3C’s Privacy Community Group
On April 23, 2020, several Google and Facebook representatives participated in an every-other-week video conference hosted by the Privacy Community Group (PCG) of the World ... Read More
Staff / Australia to Draft Regulations for How Platforms Use News Media Content
On April 20, 2020, the Australian government directed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to develop a mandatory code governing the commercial relationship between digital ... Read More
Staff / Keyword Ad Blocking Hurts News Industry
Traffic to news sites has spiked in recent weeks due to the COVID pandemic; however, news publishers have not seen a financial benefit. Overzealous blacklisting ... Read More
Staff / Google Contract with Brand Safety Companies Allegedly Limits Ability to Share Negative Information
On April 19, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenSlate, a brand safety company, refused to sign a contract with Google after being an approved partner since 2017 ... Read More
Staff / Big Tech Still Under Scrutiny After Helping Government with Coronavirus Response
As America works to meet the needs brought on by COVID-19, tech companies have coordinated with the government to find effective responses to the crisis. But people’s ... Read More
Staff / French Competition Authority Requires Google to Pay for News Content
On April 9, the French competition regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, issued an interim decision requiring Google to pay for news content under the recently ... Read More