{"id":988470,"date":"2026-01-29T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988470"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:22:40","slug":"uk-proposes-forcing-google-to-let-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-summaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/uk-proposes-forcing-google-to-let-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-summaries\/","title":{"rendered":"UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of a set of proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority aimed at loosening the US tech giant&#8217;s stranglehold on the UK&#8217;s online search market. <\/p>\n<p>The watchdog last year labeled Google a &#8220;strategic&#8221; player in online search advertising, using new digital powers to promote more competition by forcing changes to the company&#8217;s business practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews. It&#8217;s part of a set of proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority aimed at loosening the US tech giant&#8217;s stranglehold on the UK&#8217;s online search market. The watchdog last year labeled Google a &#8220;strategic&#8221; player in online search advertising, using new digital powers to promote more competition by forcing changes to the company&#8217;s business practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}