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Google, IAB Europe face complaints over real-time bidding from groups in six EU countries

By Matthew Newman
  • 10 Dec 2020 03:30
  • 10 Dec 2020 03:37
Google and IAB Europe, an association of AdTech companies, are facing data-protection complaints in six EU countries, including Romania and Portugal, on the use of real-time bidding systems from privacy-advocacy groups.
“Real-time bidding, which is the bedrock of the online advertising industry, is an abuse of people’s right to privacy,”

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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