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Facebook’s Kustomer deal set to face EU antitrust investigation
Facebook’s acquisition of US customer service start-up Kustomer is set to trigger a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next month, three people familiar with the matter sa...
EU court to rule on Google’s $2.8 billion EU antitrust fine on November 10
Europe’s second-top court will rule on Google’s challenge against a 2.4 billion euro (approximately $2.8 billion) EU antitrust fine on Nov. 10, the first of a trio of c...
EU lawmaker gets backing for tougher EU tech rules
A key EU lawmaker at the European Parliament steering the debate on tough new rules aimed at Facebook, Google and other large online platforms, secured backing to beef up Europeans...
After US push, EU pauses tax plan, but Ireland sticks to its guns
The European Union has agreed to delay a corporate tax plan for the bloc following pressure from the Biden-Harris administration and in a bid to facilitate a broader global tax dea...
WhatsApp targeted in EU consumer complaints over privacy changes
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp on Monday faced a barrage of complaints by the European Consumer Organisation and others over a privacy policy update, which has prompted a global out...
Binance temporarily suspends payments from EU’s SEPA network
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will temporarily suspend euro bank deposits from one of Europe’s key payments networks, it said in an email sent to users.
Italian watchdog takes aim at delivery firm’s gig-worker algorithms
Italy’s data protection authority ordered the delivery firm Foodinho, owned by the Spanish start-up Glovo, to change the computer algorithms used to manage staff to avoid any...
German privacy tsar tells ministries to shut Facebook pages
German government organisations have until the end of the year to close their Facebook pages after the data protection commissioner found the social network had failed to change it...
LinkedIn signs up to EU code against online hate speech
LinkedIn has signed up to the European Union’s voluntary code of conduct to combat illegal hate speech online, joining its parent Microsoft, Facebook and YouTube.
National antitrust watchdogs want more say in enforcing EU tech rules
German and French antitrust watchdogs and their counterparts in the other 25 EU countries argued for a bigger role in enforcing proposed tough new rules reining in Alphabet unit Go...
Google’s adtech business set to face formal EU probe by year-end
Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of t...
EU states back personal data flows with ex-member Britain
European Union member states have agreed that UK standards for the protection of personal data are sufficiently high that such information can continue to flow between the EU and i...
Apple’s Tim Cook says proposed EU tech rules threaten security of iPhones
Apple boss Tim Cook has taken aim at proposed European rules aimed at curbing the power of US tech giants, saying they could pose security and privacy risks to iPhones.
Morgan Stanley: Digital euro might suck away 8% of banks’ deposits
A digital euro could suck away 8% of euro zone banks’ customer deposits, analysts at Morgan Stanley have estimated, although the share may be far higher in some of the smalle...