[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] Google loses appeal, faces €2.4 billion shopping antitrust fine

Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com

Google and the European Union are still battling it out over various product-bundling schemes across Google's empire. The latest news has to do with Google Shopping's integration with Google Search.

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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.

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[Link] With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware

Read: 3/8/2021 arstechnica.com

Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.

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