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FTC alleges Amazon rigged billions of ad auctions for $20 billion
The US Federal Trade Commission alleges Amazon overrode the outcomes of its own automated advertising auctions, substituting prices Amazon set for the prices the auction mechanism produced, and puts the resulting revenue at roughly $20 billion. The complaint targets the algorithmic pricing layer itself rather than the ads business as a whole, which makes it one of the few enforcement actions to date that turns on how an automated allocation system was configured. Amazon has not conceded the characterisation and the figure is the FTC's estimate, not an adjudicated finding.
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
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153 million driver's licence records surface on a new dark-web market
An Ars Technica reporter found their own driver's licence for sale within hours of renting a car, on a site listing about 153 million US licence records. The FBI is reportedly investigating and the leak appears to be ongoing rather than a historical dump. Scale and freshness are the notable parts; the ingestion path and the identity of the breached holder are not yet established.
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale