France and Netherlands asked the EU Authority to regulate tech giants
France and the Netherlands yesterday called for a European Union authority to step in and introduce stricter regulations for large tech companies like Facebook and Google. The two companies, especially, are so dominant that they have effectively become the internet's default gatekeeper.
France a...
EU has a “hit list” of tech firms that will face tougher rules
The list is highly US-centric and is certain to include the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon.
The European Union is once more taking aim at Big Tech in their efforts to rein in the power of giant technology companies. On Monday, sources told the Financial Times that the latest battle will be ag...
EU plans antitrust measures to force big tech companies to play fair
The EU is gearing to force big tech companies to share customer data with significantly smaller competitors. The Financial Times reported the story on Wednesday and cited an early draft of the ‘Digital Services Act’ regulations.
Amazon and Google shall not use data collected on the platform ...
Facebook won’t be leaving the EU, but something has to change
A court document released this week seemed to suggest that Facebook might be forced to close its European operations. However, the company said that this outcome would not happen.
At the beginning of this month, Ireland's Data Protection Commission investigated Facebook and found that the compan...
Facebook threatens to pull out of Europe (again) – here’s why
The technology giant complains that it simply cannot function unless it is allowed to send European user data to the US for "processing."
US-based tech giant Facebook is once more appearing for the European court in order to protect its right to be exempt from EU rules. This time the battle is b...
EU hopes 5G, supercomputing will boost post-COVID recovery
New technologies are also key to maintaining the EU's technological and economic autonomy.
The European Commission has encouraged its 27 members to collaborate on the rollout of new technologies such as fibre, 5G, and supercomputers. The bloc needs to accelerate the deployment of these new techn...
Europe wants a European data market to break American dominance
The European Union has taken up the plan to develop a European data market, in which data from large European companies can be exchanged. The goal is to enable innovation and break the American dominance of Amazon, Facebook and Google.
The presentation of this plan will take place on 19 February...
Great Britain made illegal copies of data in Schengen Information System
The UK authorities have made unauthorised copies of data stored in a European database to track undocumented migrants, missing persons, stolen cars and suspected criminals.
It concerns data from the Schengen Information System (SIS), writes ZDNet. This is a European Union database containing informa...
European citizens in Great Britain are allowed to keep .eu domains after Brexit
European citizens living in Great Britain are allowed to keep their .eu domains after the Brexit. That is what the European Commission has decided. This brings the Commission back to an earlier decision.
In January, the Commission decided that European citizens in Great Britain were not allowed to k...
EU fines Qualcomm for unreasonably low priced chips
The European Union has fined Qualcomm 242 million euros. The reason is that the company sold its chips at unreasonably low prices, hoping to harm competition.
The fine revolves around the older 3G baseband chips for mobile internet dongles. Europe conducted four years of research and discovered tha...
EU rejects proposal wifi-based standard for connected cars
The European Union has made it possible for companies to compete with technologies for Internet-connected cars. The European Union rejected an application for a WiFi-based standard supported by Volkswagen, writes Reuters.
Germany, France and Italy, among others - all countries with powerful car indu...
IBM receives unconditional EU approval for Red Hat acquisition
The American tech giant IBM has received unconditional approval from the European Union for the acquisition of Red Hat, reports Reuters. Big Blue took over Red Hat in October last year for 34 billion dollars. With the acquisition, IBM intends to expand its subscription-based software offerings to co...