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Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

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In a material development that will likely have a big impact on online business models, Google is no longer proposing to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browser. Instead, it appears to be suggesting that users should be given a choice to accept or deny ad tracking at the browser level. Google’s move will be subject to regulatory oversight in the U.K., so it is not yet confirmed. Still, it could cast doubt on the uptake of Privacy Sandbox, its long-brewing alternative tech stack for personalized ad targeting that does not use cookies to track and profile users. “[W]e are proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice. Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any time. We’re discussing this new path with regulators, and will engage with the industry as we roll this out,” Google’s VP of Privacy Sandbox, Anthony Chavez, wrote in a blog …

Mike Johnson’s gambit could blow the GOP’s chances

Mike Johnson’s gambit could blow the GOP’s chances

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It seems like only yesterday that Republican president in exile Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson were pledging fealty to one another in a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago. Actually, it was five days ago and it appears their political union was as short-lived as the marriage of the Golden Bachelor. While Johnson faces the most difficult week of his short career as speaker, when asked if he supported Johnson’s plan to finally pass the long-stalled foreign appropriations bill, Trump blandly replied, “We’ll see what happens with that.” So much for their beautiful friendship.  Trump has his own problems right now, of course. He’s in the midst of his first criminal trial in New York where he’s alternately nodding off and being admonished by the judge for intimidating the jurors. So I suppose it’s too much to ask that he be concerned with something as trivial as national security. It’s just too bad that his inexplicable admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his desire to thwart any deal at the border to boost his …

Alexei Navalny death is a pre-election gambit from Putin: Bill Browder

Alexei Navalny death is a pre-election gambit from Putin: Bill Browder

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Anti-Kremlin activist Bill Browder said he believes Alexei Navalny’s death was intended as a message to political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections next month. Dissident Navalny, who died Friday, had been serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism in Russia, which he vehemently denied. World leaders reacted with dismay and suspicion to the death, with U.S. President Joe Biden saying “Putin is responsible.” Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday said the West’s reaction to Navalny’s death was “self-exposing,” given that no forensic medical examination had been made available at the time. Browder, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management and a friend of Navalny, also accused the Russian leader of being behind the death. “Well this is happening before the presidential election and I should use that word lightly, they don’t do elections in Russia, it’s the fake election. But Putin has to create the sense of legitimacy and the last thing he wants to do is to have Alexei Navalny saying things from prison that gets people to not …