Members of the U.S. House of Representatives reportedly asked President Biden to take action against the EU's Digital Markets Act. In the eyes of the MPs, the European regulations would particularly disadvantage American tech companies. In a letter to the Biden administration seen by Reuters, me... Read more
4 months ago
New U.S. payment service regulations could also affect Big Tech services. Big companies like Google and Apple have started a lobbying effort. The US government wants to achieve greater oversight of payment services. According to a proposed new regulation of payment companies by the U.S. Consumer... Read more
4 months ago
The first official EU investigation based on the Digital Services Act is a fact. Social media platform X allegedly violated rules to combat disinformation and illegal content. Two weeks earlier, the EU issued an official warning against Elon Musk's platform. In particular, the spread of disinfor... Read more
4 months ago
Microsoft has made Cloud for Sovereignty generally available. The new service is promising to allow governments to securely place their data in the cloud. Yet Microsoft personnel can access the data in specific scenarios. It's part of the reason that the authenticity of this "sovereign cloud" seems... Read more
4 months ago
Google will start its plan to phase out third-party cookies in 2024. In its place will be a new revenue model to sell Chrome users' data to advertisers. In January, the Tracking Protection feature will launch for this purpose. The rollout of the Tracking Protection feature will begin on Jan. 4. ... Read more
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Privacy organization noyb is filing a complaint with the Dutch DPA against X. The social media platform would enable illegal microtargeting ads which the European Commission uses to seek support for its proposals on client-side scanning. Pan-European privacy organization noyb fundamentally disag... Read more
4 months ago
This week, Epic Games won a high-profile lawsuit against Google. A U.S. jury ruled that the Google Play Store monopoly had harmed Epic and has to be addressed. The decision could have a major impact on the Android ecosystem, while Apple's dominance over the App Store is once again under a microscop... Read more
4 months ago
Stichting Data Bescherming Nederland is launching a lawsuit against Adobe. According to the Dutch foundation, the tech company illegally placed tracking cookies and shared the data of millions of Dutch citizens with companies. The data collection would affect virtually every Dutch Internet user.... Read more
4 months ago
Apple's messaging service iMessage may escape regulation under the EU Digital Markets Act. According to the EU, the messaging service would not be popular enough among business users, so it would not have to comply with the regulations. The DMA has been keeping Big Tech quite busy lately. The re... Read more
4 months ago
TikTok is promising to invest 12 billion euros in Europe over the next ten years. Datacenters in Ireland and Norway are set to house all the data of the company's Europe's 150 million users, while NCC Group has been brought in as an external authority to ensure the data's security. TikTok will i... Read more
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