Action by publishers comes as British antitrust regulator says it has agreed to Google's amended assurances that its cookie-killing Privacy Sandbox project will not shut other adtech businesses out of the market
Topics API replaces FLoC, which in turn was designed to replace tracking cookies
The intent is to improve speed and safety, but privacy campaigners say it is trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer
John Edwards has previously called Facebook "morally bankrupt pathological liars"
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User verification can be implemented without compromising the personal privacy of users, it says
AI systems that pose a clear threat, including those that manipulate human behaviour, opinions or decisions or enable 'social scoring' will be prohibited under the guidelines
Better Internet Search seeks a new ad-free funding model
'The Commission is not serious about it; the member states are not serious about and activists aren't serious about it either' says Johnny Ryan of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties during a roundtable debate
'Biometric mass surveillance brings Internet-style omnipresent tracking to the offline world' say campaigners