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Europarliament has passed sweeping new legislation that could change the way big tech uses and shares content. The rules — approved by the Europarliament yesterday — could see sites like YouTube made responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users. It could also see news aggregation platforms forced to pay publishers for using their content. Tech companies have long argued that it would…
The EU has hit Google with a third antitrust fine for preventing competition in the online advertising market. Rivals say the search giant restricted them from showing search ads between 2006 and 2016. The EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says Google “shielded itself from competitive pressure by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites”. The fine is equivalent to 1.3% of Google’s 2018 turnover. 
The online tracking tools, most of which were developed by Google, were discovered on 89% of government websites and 52% of national health pages, according to Danish data compliance service Cookiebot. The company warns that personal and sensitive information could be sold on by ad tech companies. Only the websites for the Spanish, German and Dutch governments were tracker-free.
Facebook confirmed its employees were able to see “hundreds of millions” of user passwords because they weren’t encrypted. It says it will notify up to 600 million users of Instagram, Facebook Lite, etc of the lapse, adding there is no evidence the data was abused. Facebook says the passwords may have been exposed for up to seven years.
British MPs have branded Facebook and its executives “digital gangsters” and accused the social media giant of deliberately obstructing an inquiry into fake news. A report  called for statutory regulation of Facebook and claimed that it did not do enough to prevent disinformation. It also accused co-founder Mark Zuckerberg of contempt of parliament after he refused three separate demands to give evidence.
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