Children’s Privacy: Not a moment too soon….
Google commits to improve enforcement of its age-based ad policy after Reuters found ads for sex toys and liquor among postings on its search engine that kids could see.
Google commits to improve enforcement of its age-based ad policy after Reuters found ads for sex toys and liquor among postings on its search engine that kids could see.
A lawsuit filed by state attorneys general in Texas, Indiana, Washington State, and the District of Columbia claims Google “systematically” deceived consumers about how their locations are tracked and used. In fact, consumers can’t opt out of having their location tracked – and don’t realize how knowing their location at all times is a massive source of income for Google’s digital ad business which last year alone netted the company $150 billion.
The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.
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.