Doorstep Dispensaree GDPR appeal fails for final time
Doorstep Dispensaree, the first UK company to be fined under the GDPR regime, has failed in its fourth – and…
legal action
US tech giants face first UK class action over AI data
Microsoft and Google are facing the prospect of the first UK class action over the alleged unlawful collection and use…
CMA: Google using market power to hinder adtech rivals
The net could finally be closing in on Google’s dominance of the adtech market, with the UK Competition & Markets…
Royal Mail whacked by £900m claim over market abuse
A group of bulk mail users – which includes retailers, utility companies, charities and publishers – is seeking nearly £900m…
SME retailers plot £1bn action against ‘abusive’ Amazon
A group of independent British retailers has launched what is claimed to be the biggest ever retail class action in…
Google faces UK trial over £13.6bn adtech market abuse
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has given the green light to a group of online publishers to pursue their £13.6bn claim…
Brussels blows ‘pay or consent’ models out of the water
The European Data Protection Board has issued a damning opinion on the “consent or pay” models deployed by large online…
Decision imminent on legality of Meta’s ‘pay or consent’
The European Data Protection Board – which is made up of all of the EU’s data privacy chiefs – is…
Google fined for mass theft of content to build AI tool
Google has been slapped with a €250m (£213m) fine by the French competition authority, predominantly for using content from publishers…
Top court rules IAB real-time bidding breaches GDPR
IAB Europe has failed in its attempt to overturn a 2022 ruling that its real-time bidding adtech system – used…