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Adtech veteran Quantcast is latest tech giant to face GDPR privacy probe

Another tech giant is underneath investigation in Europe for possible privacy breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechCrunch has learnt. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is the lead knowledge coverage regulator for many multinational tech giants in Europe, has opene…
Another tech giant is under investigation in Europe for potential privacy breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechCrunch has learnt. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is the lead data protection regulator for most multinational tech giants in Europe, has opene…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "The question of how policymakers should respond to the power of big tech didnt get a great deal of airtime at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, despite a number of investigations now underway in the United States (hi, Google)". (September 22, 2020)
  3. "Apples CEO Tim Cook has urged Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference today echoing many of the points he made in Brussels in person two years ago when he hit out at the data industrial complex underpinning the adtech industry&#8". (January 28, 2021)
  4. "Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser". (February 24, 2021)
  5. "European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year". (June 25, 2020)
  6. "A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad-targeting industry profiles internet users intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), piling more pressure on the countrys data watchdog to take". (September 21, 2020)
  7. "European antitrust regulators now have until almost the end of the year to take a decision on whether to green light Googles planned acquisition of Fitbit". (September 23, 2020)
  8. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
  9. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
  10. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
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