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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Tencent Says Big Tech Needs Greater Oversight; Group Seeks To Block Maryland Online Ad Tax

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Marylanders for Tax Fairness is preparing for a battle in January over the state’s attempt to make a digital advertising tax, the Baltimore Sun reported. India’s Antitrust Watchdog Opens Google Antitrust Case. Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov.

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A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape

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Human beings are complicated, contradictory creatures, capable of persuading themselves that privacy is important to them, even as they share everything from breakfast habits to details of their dreams online, all the while making vacation plans on Google Calendar. One recent survey found that 78 percent of U.S. Privacy Punishment.

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