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FTC drops hammer on unwanted subscriptions with 'click to cancel' rule

It 'will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money'

Legal16 Oct 2024 | 18

Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout

AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads

AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3

Google insists the ad tech business ain't broke, urges Washington not to fix it

As its other monopoly trial - the one brought by the DoJ and eight states - begins in Virginia

Legal10 Sep 2024 | 9

Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer

A career and life so classically Silicon Valley

Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 28

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Updated CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech

Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 206

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules

Web giant to seek second opinion after bench labels biz 'a monopolist' in DoJ win

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 48

Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR

Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges

SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8

Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans

Facebook, Instagram gobble up same data whether you hand over cash or not

Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 40

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks

Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten

Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 11

Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated

Won't somebody pleeease think of the ... oh, right, they are

Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 5

X boss Elon Musk tries to make nice with world at ad biz conference

Where we're at in 2024: Billionaire says he didn't mean to tell everyone to 'go f%$k themselves'

Offbeat20 Jun 2024 | 47

Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads

Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches

Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 78

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

Analysis Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes?

Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 49

Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers

As more than 70 civil society groups sign open letter slamming 'intimidation'

Personal Tech16 Jun 2024 | 35

Japan's space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of crops

Some would say ads for cabbage are futile – can pics from space at least make them timely?

Software14 Jun 2024 | 20

Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M

Analysis In this slightly more private era, your data ain't as profitable as it once was

Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 25

UK tribunal greenlights $17.4B advertising monopoly case against Google

Chocolate Factory entangled in yet another anti-competitive claim

Networks05 Jun 2024 | 7

Meta algorithms push Black people more toward expensive universities, study finds

Special report Just as we saw with housing, Facebook giant's advertising system seems to treat Whites and POC differently

AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 44

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Updated GitHub trove details API features that 'contradict' Big G’s public statements about how its engine works

Devops29 May 2024 | 39

PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history

You are the product, after all

Personal Tech28 May 2024 | 78

Google offers DoJ cash to eliminate jury in web ad monopoly abuse trial

Nyah, nyah: You can't sue for damages if we just meet your demands

Public Sector21 May 2024 | 8

An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

Feature Follow us down this deep rabbit hole of privacy policy after privacy policy

Personal Tech18 May 2024 | 140

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed

Personal Tech11 May 2024 | 71

Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries

Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste

Security29 Apr 2024 | 10

Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'

And you thought the Bing begging was annoying

OSes24 Apr 2024 | 109

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all

Research24 Apr 2024 | 109

UK data watchdog questions how private Google's Privacy Sandbox is

Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short

Security22 Apr 2024 | 3

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

Updated Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert

Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 61

YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'

Applications16 Apr 2024 | 70

Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryption

I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case...

Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 20

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI

Personal Tech16 Mar 2024 | 54

IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem

Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR

Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 24

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended

Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36

Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe

Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation

Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8

Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers

Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6

Brit watchdog thinks Google's tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn't cricket

Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority

Applications01 Feb 2024 | 15

Intuit ordered to use the word 'free' less freely in its ads

FTC slams TurboTax's marketing as deceptive

Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 10

Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30 million Chrome users

One of the ad APIs that will fill the void – Protected Audience – arguably may offer better privacy anyway

Personal Tech04 Jan 2024 | 46

Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news

Publisher seeks 'the Uberization of Content'

AI + ML12 Dec 2023 | 16

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

Apparently they're being serious

Bootnotes07 Dec 2023 | 94

Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal

Advertisers may be surprised to find where their banners appear

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 5

UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners

30 days to get compliant with tracking rules or face enforcement action

Security22 Nov 2023 | 45

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

Updated Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms

Applications17 Nov 2023 | 170

Rights warriors claim online ad auction data a danger to national security

'The industry can not be allowed to put elected leaders, military personnel at risk'

Personal Tech16 Nov 2023 | 18

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Facebook: If only we had a national law to ensure kids get parental permission to indulge in damaging social media

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 31

Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024

Bonfire of the web trackers is coming, industry ready or not

Personal Tech14 Nov 2023 | 21

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Opinion Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness

Personal Tech06 Nov 2023 | 198

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit

Software31 Oct 2023 | 34

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the 'magical entry into another dimension'

Offbeat26 Oct 2023 | 20

Amazon Ads rolls out generative AI for ad image composition

Not enough gourds in your product pics? Try the 'Pumpkin spice' theme

AI + ML26 Oct 2023 | 5

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Interview Irish eyes may not be smiling

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 177

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

'It looks like even Sundar Pichai is confused about how this control works'

Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 38

Japan to probe Google over 'suspicion' that antitrust laws are being broken

Updated Arrives at the same conclusion about the nexus of Android and search as pretty much everyone else

Legal24 Oct 2023 | 11

Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone

Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case

Personal Tech10 Oct 2023 | 12

Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads

From AI to just plain aaaiiiee!

Cyber-crime29 Sep 2023 | 16

IBM's Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen

Video watching habits and other data just handed over, lawsuit claims

Software22 Sep 2023 | 4