In Brief: Google’s search engine “not-guilty” decision could offer other tech companies protection from defamation claims
The ruling from an Austrian high court deemed the company not liable for defamatory content on websites it provides links to.
The ruling from an Austrian high court deemed the company not liable for defamatory content on websites it provides links to.
Google flagged two US fathers for child abuse after the parents sent photos to their child’s pediatrician to diagnose their sons’ illnesses. This raises significant concern, since these are almost certainly not isolated cases and there was no intermediate step provided by Google to be able to check validity before misinformation was shared with authorities.
This adds to concerns raised by India’s decision to table its data privacy law initiative.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)