Legal: Regulation
Reports: Google, Amazon to face new antitrust inquiries in changed political climate
Reportedly the DOJ will investigate Google and the FTC will take on Amazon....
DuckDuckGo proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”
If enacted, the law would require sites to honor user tracking...
New European Google local SERPs prompt users to ‘find results on’ other sites
Google appears to be trying to prevent a formal local search antitrust...
Google to offer browser, search-app choices in Android Europe set-up flow
Users will be asked to choose from among five search and browser apps in randomized...
Google fined another $1.7 billion by EU for ‘abusive’ AdSense publisher contracts
Google has now been fined a cumulative total of roughly $9.3 billion and there's one more potential case lurking....
Yelps says Google trying to bring back ‘discredited’ shopping antitrust remedy
Company says the approach only delivers marginally better traffic to competitors' sites....
SEO industry ‘a minefield of dodgy practitioners’: Australian official seeks action
Small business advocate is calling for new regulation....
DuckDuckGo CEO testifies: Privacy legislation isn’t ‘anti-advertising’
Gabriel Weinberg also believes that privacy legislation can make the internet more competitive....
Google lobs invective at EU Copyright Directive
SVP Kent Walker urges changes in language ahead of ratification....
Google’s EU shopping comparison rivals say their situation is getting worse
They argue in an open letter to the European Commission that Google's auction-based remedy to antitrust claims is fundamentally flawed....
Google looking for ways to handle sites blocking searchers over GDPR
Google admits it is a bad user experience for a European user to see content in web search, click on it and get a blocked page because of...
Antitrust, data and consumer privacy will take center stage at new FTC hearings
Will they lead to a new Google investigation, more Facebook...
EU: Google shopping search reforms working
EU Commissioner Vestager gave qualified approval to the changes put in place....
Google axes political ads in Washington state, LinkedIn does it globally
New campaign finance rules require near real-time disclosure of data....
Report: EU about to fine Google billions in Android antitrust case
The first antitrust fine was roughly $2.8 billion; this one could be larger....
EU’s disruptive ‘copyright reform’ moves closer to passage
Legislation seeks to clean up copyright but also to subsidize traditional media at the expense of internet companies....
Yelp-led group’s new video appeals to Google employees to advocate for internal change
Video makes argument that Google is doing anti-competitive things in local search...
Yelp asks Europe to take new antitrust action against Google
Complaint to European Commission applies the logic of the Shopping Search case to local search....
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us
A brief history of the many privacy disasters at the world's dominant social media platform, and what the most recent data exposure means for...
Europeans again raise the specter of breaking up Google
More of a bargaining position, it's extremely unlikely to actually happen....