Texas is one of 14 states, along with Puerto Rico, alleging Google colluded with Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to stall federal efforts to strengthen the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, according to court documents unsealed last Friday.
Australia issues draft bill and seeks input through December 3rd on a new Online Privacy Bill to require social media platforms to obtain age verification for children under 16-years old or face steep fines of up to 10% of annual turnover.
Connected TV data Amazon had been sharing with advertisers, including IMDb TV and Twitch, will no longer be available to identify who’s watching shows and to help advertisers “frequency cap,” a technique used to try to prevent having users see the same ad repeatedly.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.