Google, adtech corporations hit with contemporary EU privateness complaints

Alphabet unit Google and virtual selling corporations have been hit with contemporary privateness complaints to national watchdogs in six EU world places on Thursday over one of the best ways they advertise ads to possible advertisers by way of a bidding process.
Alphabet unit Google and digital advertising firms were hit with fresh privacy complaints to national watchdogs in six EU countries on Thursday over the way they sell ads to potential advertisers through a bidding process.Original article
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  3. "Exasperated by its failure to loosen Google's market grip, despite more than $8 billion in fines, the European Union is lining up new rules to level the playing field for rivals". (July 1, 2020)
  4. "Google will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation into its planned $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit unless it offers concessions to address competition concerns, people familiar with the matter said". (July 9, 2020)
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  8. "EU antitrust regulators have sought information from advertisers regarding Google's advertising technology practices, a European Commission document seen by Reuters shows". (January 20, 2021)
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  10. "The latest clash between Facebook and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems could disrupt hundreds of thousands of companies as Europe's top court rules on Thursday on the legality of tools companies use to transfer Europeans' data around the world". (July 16, 2020)
  11. "Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has apologised to Europe's industry chief Thierry Breton over a leaked internal document proposing tactics to counter the EU's tough new rules on internet companies and lobby against the EU commissioner". (November 13, 2020)
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