He did not elaborate on what happened at the meeting, which took place on August 6, 2019. However, Apple spokesman Fred Sciencez said on Friday that a company representative had not attended the meeting.
A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment at the meeting. When asked on Facebook on Friday, he did not immediately comment.
The documents – recorded as part of an anti-Semitism lawsuit in Texas, 14 other states and Puerto Rico – are appearing in Congress amid growing advances in the tech industry’s privacy practices and the push for federal information privacy laws. At the request of 23 news outlets, including a federal judge in New York, the document was ordered to be published.
Google spokeswoman Julie Taralo McLean said the new claims in the Texas lawsuit were “erroneous” but did not mention the state meeting.
“We have made clear our support for consistent privacy laws around the world,” she said. For example, we have been asking Congress to pass federal privacy laws for years.
However, Sen. Ed Markay, a senior advocate for children’s privacy law, said the revelations about the 2019 meeting were indicative.
“Big Tech and the lobbyists are working hard to pass congressional privacy law because it costs money,” he said. Even in the case of children, these companies put their points ahead of the safety of their users.
One week before the meeting, the Federal Trade Commission announced plans to make changes to the interpretation of the Children’s Online Privacy Act, which prohibits the collection of information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. Markay and C. Josh Howley (R-Mo) also introduced an amended law That law To provide maximum protection for 13- to 15-year-olds.
“At this meeting and in other forums, we can emphasize that this is an area of special importance for us to have a coordinated approach,” Google said in an internal statement on the complaint.
We are in the direction of Kent. [Walker] We can get aligned with MSFT but we have to be careful with their movement [in promoting privacy] And try to get as much Intel as possible. ” (The parentheses in the citation edition indicate that the “instruction” came from Google’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, Kent Walker.)
On the same note, “It may not be able to persuade Facebook to align with our privacy goals and strategies,” he said.
Within a month, Google agreed to pay $ 170 million to settle the allegations against the FTC and FCC. The New York Attorney General has violated copyright by collecting information about children watching videos on YouTube. The punishment is the highest for online child abuse.
Jedi Blue: New Unclosed Court Record Gives New Details of 2018 Advertising Agreement Between Google and Facebook, Nicknamed Jedi Blue
The states sued Google and Facebook in their first complaint in December. A.D. In 2018, it entered into a secret and illegal agreement to divide the advertising market on websites and apps. (The lawsuit alleges that Google solely has the technology to purchase, sell, and serve online display ads.)
In a new report released on Friday, States cited Google’s August 2018 presentation: [Facebook Audience Network]’Then he collaborated with Facebook and’ used to ‘die’.
The deal was created by Facebook. His move to use the “header auction” in 2017 – has helped web publishers increase their advertising revenue. When Facebook sells ads on its own platform, it builds a network to allow advertisers to place ads on third-party apps and mobile websites.
Top Facebook executives have said in emails that the Google deal is “strategically important.” The social network considers itself to have limited options: “’Invest in hundreds of engineers’ and spend billions to compete, get out of business or enter into a contract with Google.
According to an agreement signed by the company’s top executives in November 2018, Google has provided benefits to Facebook by using social media advertising. Both software can be used to track and identify users so that Google can transmit information to Facebook by combining some of their software.
Google and Facebook say they have copied technology to block surveillance of Apple devices and Apple Safari browser.
Facebook responseFacebook spokesman Christopher Sigro said the company supports fair and transparent bidding “where the highest bidder wins”.
“Nothing stated today does not change that fact. On the contrary, the full report confirms what we said at the outset – Facebook’s unique bidding agreement and similar agreements with other bidding platforms have helped increase competition for advertising placements,” he said. It allows it to make a difference and compensates publishers more effectively.