'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare

A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – […]

The Google-backed ads.txt push to stamp out ad fraud is moving much slower than anticipated

Slate The adoption of ads.txt, a digital ad initiative via which publishers make it clear which third party companies can and can’t sell their ad space, has been sluggish.  According to a study by ad intelligence platform MediaRadar only 20% of 3,000 publishers it surveyed had adopted it. This is considerably smaller than the number put […]