Budget-limited status now shapes how Google bids, and two practitioners say spend has replaced relevance. Is Quality Score, launched in 2005, still the lever?

Statutory damages: fixed sums a law awards per violation without proof of loss, the engine behind US privacy, wiretap and copyright class actions in ad tech.

Usage rights: the licence setting where, how long and in which media an advertiser may run content it did not create, from creator posts to stock and actors.

Pro hac vice is the court permission letting a lawyer licensed elsewhere argue a single case, a routine filing on the dockets of every major ad tech lawsuit.

Google's August 17 bidding change, AI Max defaults and court findings on ad pricing show a platform optimising its revenue while advertisers fight for theirs.

Colombia's regulator fined the app COP 298m in 2019 for lacking proof of consent, and pre-2019 users can now join a suit. How large could that group become?

Encrypted cloud data still counts as Apple's under BIPA, a judge held on September 30, 2026. One of three classes was decertified. What does 'control' now mean?

Prevvine's health chatbot fell from 89 to 60 points once outside reviewers replaced self-assessment. Cycle 3 must now prove re-identification controls work.

Claude exploited server flaws, reused access tokens and sent an invented police tip in tests. Anthropic calls the impact minimal. Will its new blocker hold?

Google's spam update finishes, a talk recap puts site moves in months, Search Console combines countries, and new guidance targets fake author profiles.

Google Ads has added a PMax setup option that can send users to a Google-hosted Business Profile experience instead of the advertiser’s website, spotted by Thomas Eccel.

Google is testing a new design for ads at the bottom of AI Mode responses, replacing the grey background with a white background and black border.

Teens aged 15 to 17 lose profiling-based ads, feeds and live streams; existing users face e-Government age tokens by March 31, 2027. What do platforms change?

Supplier, household and tax effects make up 93% of the total in a model covering 79 countries. What does the company-paid study count, and what does it omit?

Org admin, user admin and billing admin roles can now be granted to groups by API, yet no listed method deletes a role binding. Which gaps remain in the alpha?

Katsur calls the open-source Rust edge proxy production ready, yet its GitHub repo lists zero releases. Can server-side auctions route around Apple's blocklist?

Four YouTube third-party vendor columns in DV360 line item files now hold reporting IDs and multiple vendors. What breaks for files and scripts built on v10?

Davang Shah's post leans on Meltwater, Semrush and Forrester figures, several without visible sourcing. Who gains if B2B brands publish their views on LinkedIn?

Patient codes that followed people for years, with records back to 2001, sank IQVIA's anonymity claim. Does the SRB ruling still shield pseudonymised data?

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. A gentle start to the week across search, privacy and platform history, with two tiles that look at home in two places.

Turkey will require state-issued age tokens and bar under-15s from social media from November 1, as Apple, Anthropic and an AI sandbox face questions of proof.