Here you will find all the articles with the tag: big tech regulation.
Germany’s antitrust watchdog announced that it has opened an investigation into whether Amazon, the US retail giant, is leveraging its market dominance in unfair and illegal ways. The Federal Cartel Office said that the first step for the watchdog will be to look into whether Amazon is “of outs... Read more
3 years ago
The UK plans to launch a regulator to make sure that big tech companies like Facebook and Google do not abuse their market power. As the dominant players, they have been known to have ambitions exceeding their already gargantuan empires. They participate in anti-competitive business practices an... Read more
3 years ago
If the EU and the Joe Biden administration fail to agree on a global framework for committing to a unilateral tax on big tech, EU leaders are prepared to affirm their commitment and go it alone. Supposedly, all of this should happen by the middle of this year. In a summit later this month, th... Read more
3 years ago
France Digitale filed a complaint against Apple with CNIL (a data privacy watchdog) on breaching of European Union rules. France’s leading startup lobby confirmed the complaint filing in a statement. In a seven-page complaint obtained by Reuters, the lobby, which represents most of France’s ... Read more
3 years ago
The White House announced on Friday that the new economic advisers and vocal big tech critic Tim Wu would help the President Joe Biden administration deal with the big tech issues cropping up. Tim Wu is expected to help the president push his agenda on the technology sector. Most of what the adm... Read more
3 years ago
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Union’s Chief Executive, said that Europe and the US should join forces in the fight against climate change and together, agree on and enforce a new framework for the digital market. The aim is to limit the powers held by big tech companies. The president ... Read more
3 years ago
CEOs Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey will have to answer to Congress about the explosion of misinformation on their platform. They will also be required to state how they plan to address the problem. The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced the hearing with Facebook, Twi... Read more
3 years ago
On Wednesday, the European Union's watchdog, EDPS, supported the region's plan to curb the power held by US tech giants that include, Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. The plan includes new tough rules and suggestions to include more safeguards to boost consumers' privacy rights. T... Read more
3 years ago
The European Commission has told Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft, to continue delivering monthly reports on efforts undertaken to tackle fake news, especially on the pandemic, for six more months. Social media and other extensive online platforms have come under fire in recent times for... Read more
3 years ago
President Emmanuel Macron has a warning for some of the big tech companies. He wants them to get on board with the European Union’s efforts to regulate the tech industry. In a call with Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, and Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday, Macron told them that any unfair... Read more
3 years ago
