I believe this is likely what is happening with a data rights and ownership situation between Google and advertisers.
This decade’s most important marketing question: What data rights do advertisers possess?|Kirk Williams|September 17, 2020|Search Engine Land
Both Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, the school board member who represents the area, and Barrera acknowledged the school did not handle the situation well.
Morning Report: Lincoln Abruptly Canceled AP Class|Voice of San Diego|September 17, 2020|Voice of San Diego
To anyone who lives here, or anyone who’s watching, the situation is maddening and seems utterly unsustainable.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.|James Temple|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
That’s certainly a situation that no one wants to be put in.
Podcast: COVID-19 is helping turn Brazil into a surveillance state|Anthony Green|September 16, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Other situations could give a magnetar a halo of electrons, but protons would come only from the magnetar itself.
Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched|Lisa Grossman|September 16, 2020|Science News
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
Slow Motion Tiger Jump, a Tornado at the Rose Bowl and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.
Jihadis Release New Year’s Eve Video of Italian Female Hostages|Jamie Dettmer, Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years|Jedediah Purdy|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And, he confided, the situation left him “a little depressed” as well.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus|Ben Jacobs|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some eyes in the park watched him while the police monitored the situation from several street corners.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On recollecting myself, and examining my Situation, I found the Case clear.
Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2)|Wiliam Cabell Bruce
How if he should take this means of informing Joseph of his present situation?
The Strange Story of Rab Rby|Mr Jkai
No one can doubt it who knows the situation of the two countries, still less anyone who has read the correspondence.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents|James D. Richardson
The boys waited for Mr. Temple to take the initiative, and he was sizing up the situation.
The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty|Gerald Breckenridge
I'd radiate like mad; I'd complain about the situation at every crossroad, at every filling station, before every farmer.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith
British Dictionary definitions for situation
situation
/ (ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən) /
noun
physical placement, esp with regard to the surroundings
state of affairs; combination of circumstances
a complex or critical state of affairs in a novel, play, etc
social or financial status, position, or circumstances
a position of employment; post
Derived forms of situation
situational, adjective
usage for situation
Situation is often used in contexts in which it is redundant or imprecise. Typical examples are: the company is in a crisis situation or people in a job situation. In the first example, situation does not add to the meaning and should be omitted. In the second example, it would be clearer and more concise to substitute a phrase such as people at work