‘Click to dial’ ads on Google are costing consumers, Which? claims

Consumers are being misled into using claims firms or dialling premium-rate numbers when trying to make an insurance claim, because ‘click to dial’ ads are appearing above insurers' websites on Google, a Which? investigation has found.  Which? analysed search results for the terms people most commonly use when searching for their car insurer’s phone number on…

New UK regulator to take on tech giants

A new regulator to help make sure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online has launched in the UK.  Called the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) and based in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator aims to give consumers more choice…