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Google, others should be held liable for financial-scam ads, regulator warns

By Fiona Maxwell ( January 18, 2021, 13:08 GMT | Insight) -- Google and other online-platform operators may see new UK laws to force them to bear legal liability for allowing fraudulent ads on their sites as talks continue between the country's financial services regulator and the finance ministry on the matter. The FCA has called for a solution in a report today that showed that consumer scams are on the rise amid the Covid-19 pandemic.Google and other online-platform operators may be forced to bear legal liability for misleading or fraudulent financial adverts displayed on their sites under a UK regulatory push....

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