South Korea’s privacy regulator fines Google $50M and Meta $22M for failing to obtain users’ consent when collecting behavioral information to show custom ads (Reuters)

September 14, 2022

Reuters:
South Korea’s privacy regulator fines Google $50M and Meta $22M for failing to obtain users’ consent when collecting behavioral information to show custom ads — South Korea levied fines running into millions of dollars on Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O) …

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Australia’s AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)

Daryna Antoniuk / The Record:
Australia’s AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more — Australia plans to strengthen its online privacy laws following several major data breaches, attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Saturday.

October 25, 2022

Alphabet’s Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Alphabet’s Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January — Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …

September 9, 2022

Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions — Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats …

December 6, 2022

Texas AG sues Google for allegedly using features in Photos, Assistant, and Nest devices to collect facial- and voice-recognition data without proper consent (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Texas AG sues Google for allegedly using features in Photos, Assistant, and Nest devices to collect facial- and voice-recognition data without proper consent — State alleges tech giant didn’t obtain user consent for biometric-data use — The Texas attorney general sued Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 2.32%▲ …

October 20, 2022

Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving” than similar systems used in other browsers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving” than similar systems used in other browsers — The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.

September 29, 2022

Alphabet Q3: revenue of $69.09B, down from $65.1B YoY, net income of $13.9B, down from $18.9B YoY, headcount of 186,779, up from 150,028 YoY; stock drops 5%+ (Alphabet)

Alphabet:
Alphabet Q3: revenue of $69.09B, down from $65.1B YoY, net income of $13.9B, down from $18.9B YoY, headcount of 186,779, up from 150,028 YoY; stock drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 25, 2022 – Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.

October 25, 2022

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