Blog and Research – Sovereignty, Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
My latest article “International Law Protection in Cyberspace Against Ransomware and Experience of Vietnam” outlines the application of sovereignty in cyberspace, in the context of ransomware attacks in private sectors, and cybersecurity in Vietnam.
France Antitrust watchdog: Google failed to provide adequate information to its consumers
Yesterday, on 4 July 2023, the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control announced a sanction against Google for failing its information obligation toward its users.
Gannett’s lawsuit against Google aims to end the latter’s monopoly
Following the allegations of misconduct and abuse of monopolisation against Google both in the U.S. and EU, on 20 June 2023, Gannett, an U.S. based publisher (e.g. USA Today) filed the complaint for damages and injunctive reliefs. It alleges Google’s violation of the Sherman Act U.S.C 15 § 1, 2 for the monopolisation of the…
EU: Google’s abusive practices in online adtech
The EU Commission considers that Google breached EU antitrust rules, distorting competition in the advertising technology (adtech), by favouring its own online display ad tech services to the detriment of competing providers of adtech services, advertisers and online publishers.
Google’s AI-powered ad solutions
On Wednesday 14 June 2023 Google Ads announced its new AI-powered campaigns for Google and YouTube, Demand Gen and Video View. Demand Gen integrates the best-performing video, image assets across their most visual, entertainment-focused touchpoints, such as YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Discover and Gmail. Video View helps brands maximise views across in-stream, in-feed, YouTube Shorts. The…
Google Ad-tech: What do we expect tomorrow?
Yesterday, the WSJ and Bloomberg reported on the EU antitrust legislators’ consideration to break Google’s advertising-technology business up by a formal antitrust complaint against this giant tech. This complaint alleges that the company abuses its position as “one of the largest brokers, suppliers, online auctioneers of digital ads on third-party websites, apps”. Back in January,…
Google Cloud announces security model using generative AI
Google introduces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench platform, powered by a specialised security LLM, Sec-PaLM.
Apple’s possibility to challenge USPTO’s rule
The decision of the Appeal Court of 13 March 2023 rekindled the challenge of Apple & other big techs to the U.S. patent-review procedure.