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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. It is also seeking to find if the billing infrastructure of Google Play is created “to the disadvantage of both i.e. apps facilitating payment through UPI, as well as users.”.

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A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape

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Trying to reconcile the desire for privacy with the realities of online life — the “free” services that take payment in personal data — stands as one of the founding tensions of the digital era, unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. Privacy Changes. One recent survey found that 78 percent of U.S. In fact, just 9 percent of U.S.

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COVID Vaccine Fraud: Be Wary of the Scammers

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9 in federal court in Baltimore. Some are using outbound sales teams to call consumers, offering home delivery of the vaccine after payment is made up-front. Marketers offering to sell and/or ship doses of a vaccine, domestically or internationally, in exchange for payment of a deposit or fee. Ads and Direct Solicitations.

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Go-Jek = fintech?

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It might be counterintuitive to think of Go-Jek as a fintech company, but its payment service Go-Pay is helping to fuel the digital payments wave in Indonesia, where smartphone penetration approached close to half the population as of last year.

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