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News and information from the Advent IM team.
Adtech and the data protection debate – where next?
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
In June we issued our Adtech Update Report with a clear message to industry that they had six months to read, internalise and act upon our report. Our view from the outset was that this is an industry problem requiring an industry solution. We have just reached the end of that six month period and are reviewing […]
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Tim Berners-Lee launches ‘Contract for the Web’ to govern internet giants and governments
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee’s ‘global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone’ Read more via Computing.
Read MoreThe Google fine – thoughts from Mike Gillespie
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Google fine – it’s a whopper eh? And justified! It shows what can happen when data subjects get hacked off enough to band together with privacy groups and take the fight to the big tech companies. Google has a long history of ignoring individuals’ rights and shrouding invasive monitoring and underhanded data collection in badly […]
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