Privacy concerns are having a more meaningful impact on location data. Apple and Google have both blocked data broker X-Mode from collecting location data via phone apps. It’s not clear that X-Mode was less compliant with notification rules than other brokers, but they did recently get called out for selling data to national security agencies.
Yes, they really think you’re that stupid.
Google, Amazon get $163M fine and 3 month ultimatums from CNIL France’s Data Authority, CNIL doubled its highest previous penalty and charged Google $121M, saying it does not sufficiently inform French Google users why and how cookies are used. Amazon similarly was given a $42.5M fine for putting cookies on users’ computers without consent. Both companies disagree.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.