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Big Tech May Not Feel Impact of EU’s New Online Rules Until 2024
July 06, 2022

After years in the making, on Tuesday, July 5, the EU Parliament approved in plenary session landmark legislation that will set comprehensive standards for regulating the digital space.  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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FCC’s Brendan Carr Asks Apple, Google to Remove TikTok App
June 29, 2022

Brendan Carr, the senior Republican and the previous General Counsel on the Federal Communications Commission, sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai asking that they stop carrying the TikTok app.  Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Big Tech Weekly: Google Faces EU Regulator Crackdown on 2 Fronts
June 24, 2022

In the latest chapter of Alphabet’s mounting European Union antitrust concerns, the Google Maps platform comes under scrutiny from the German competition watchdog and the company agrees to a copyright deal with French news publishers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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EU Privacy Watchdog: Give Us the Major Big Tech Cases
June 17, 2022

The head of the European Union’s data protection watchdog said that a landmark privacy law adopted four years ago isn’t being enforced properly and that his agency should handle cross-border Big Tech privacy cases. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Europe New Battleground in Fight Against Platform Monopolies
June 16, 2022

In Apple’s ongoing antitrust woes, the locus of the company’s legal concerns is increasingly moving from the U.S. to Europe as investigations by EU and U.K. authorities call for changes to Apple policies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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EU’s Disinformation Code Will Force Big Tech to Disclose How They Tackle Fake News  
June 14, 2022

Facebook, Twitter and TikTok are among the signatories of a new version of the EU’s anti-disinformation code that could be published as early as next Thursday and would force companies to share more data about how they tackle disinformation, according to a confidential report seen...

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Spotify, Yelp, Others Urge Senate to Rein in Big Tech
June 13, 2022

Several companies and business groups, including Spotify and Yelp, have written to U.S. senators imploring them to pass a bill that would curb the power of Big Tech firms such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Lawmakers Seek to Push Antitrust, Privacy Bills as Big Tech Revamps Lobbying Efforts
June 10, 2022

Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple have been living for the last years with the threat of new legislation in the U.S. that could limit their ability to operate their platforms, and especially during the last 18 months since President Joe Biden took office. Get the...

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UK Sets Course to Woo Big Tech
June 07, 2022

In April, the U.K. government announced a new plan to make the U.K. a global crypto hub with, among other things, a friendly regulatory environment. Now the government is prepared to unveil a set of new policies that will seek to lure the tech sector,...