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.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).