A book excerpt details how companies like RELX and Thomson Reuters collect and sell user data, exploiting a lack of privacy laws as regulators focus on Big Tech (Sarah Lamdan/Wired)

November 12, 2022

Sarah Lamdan / Wired:
A book excerpt details how companies like RELX and Thomson Reuters collect and sell user data, exploiting a lack of privacy laws as regulators focus on Big Tech — Google and Facebook’s privacy violations are common knowledge. But the decisions of a less-known company, Relx, are also impacting people’s everyday lives.

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Thomson Reuters plans to acquire tax automation software company SurePrep for $500M in cash, with the deal expected to close in Q1 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Thomson Reuters plans to acquire tax automation software company SurePrep for $500M in cash, with the deal expected to close in Q1 2023 — Thomson Reuters has announced plans to acquire SurePrep, a tax automation software company based in Irvine, California.

November 11, 2022

Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017 (Kollen Post/The Block)

Kollen Post / The Block:
Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017 — – Bittrex is facing record fines from the U.S. Treasury Department over the exchange’s lack of sanctions controls between 2014 and 2017.

October 11, 2022

A book excerpt details how YouTube’s love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 (Mark Bergen/The Verge)

Mark Bergen / The Verge:
A book excerpt details how YouTube’s love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 — The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit focused on antisemitism, received an unusual invitation from YouTube in early 2017: come meet our biggest influencer.

September 6, 2022

Report: several US states are investigating Genesis Global as part of an inquiry into interconnectedness of crypto firms, securities laws violations, and more (Christiana Loureiro/The Block)

Christiana Loureiro / The Block:
Report: several US states are investigating Genesis Global as part of an inquiry into interconnectedness of crypto firms, securities laws violations, and more — – States including Alabama are looking into crypto firms and whether they violated securities laws.

November 25, 2022

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)

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) …

September 14, 2022

How an 8-year-old’s YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google’s ubiquity in schools and its handling of children’s data (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
How an 8-year-old’s YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google’s ubiquity in schools and its handling of children’s data — An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

September 23, 2022

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