Googles Vint Cerf voices support for common criteria for political ad targeting

Google VP Vint Cerf has voiced improve for a single set of necessities for internet platforms to make use of spherical political selling. Talking to the U.K. parliament’s Democracy and Virtual Applied sciences Committee these days, the longtime Googler — who has been chief internet evangelist at the t…
Google VP Vint Cerf has voiced support for a single set of standards for internet platforms to apply around political advertising. Speaking to the U.K. parliament’s Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee today, the longtime Googler — who has been chief internet evangelist at the t…Original article
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