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- U.S. Said to Consider a Breakup of Google to Address Search Monopoly [nytimes.com]
"Google was found last week to have violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in internet search. Now discussions over how to fix those violations have begun," report David McCabe and Nico Grant.
"'There is no silver bullet,' DuckDuckGo said in a statement. 'Truly fixing the entrenched competitive imbalance that Google’s default advantage has afforded them will require a mixture of interventions.'"
- Google and Meta Ignored Their Own Rules in Secret Teen-Targeting Ad Deals [arstechnica.com]
"Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online."
- Musk's X Under Scrutiny in Europe for Data Privacy Practices [computerworld.com]
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) "has raised concerns about X’s use of public posts from the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) to train AI systems, including its chatbot "Grok," reports Prasanth Aby Thomas. "The commission alleges that X’s use of Grok violates GDPR guidelines on data protection and privacy."
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