about 4,000 major publishing groups have written to Google, accusing it of forcing them to shoulder the burden of getting users to consent to their data being collected under rules coming in with this month's General Data Protection Regulation. The missive, seen by Reuters, was signed by Digital Content Next, European Publishers Council, News Media Alliance and News Media Association, which represent Four media companies. They claimed Google's proposal could allow it to define what constitutes consent and dictate which other ad services publishers could use. The publishers also objected to Google defining itself as a "collector" of data.
Four major publishing groups have written to Google, accusing it of forcing them to shoulder the burden of getting users to consent to their data being collected under rules coming in with this month's General Data Protection Regulation. The missive, seen by Reuters, was signed by Digital Content Next, European Publishers Council, News Media Alliance and News Media Association, which represent about 4,000 media companies. They claimed Google's proposal could allow it to define what constitutes consent and dictate which other ad services publishers could use. The publishers also objected to Google defining itself as a "collector" of data.