by Surur
1 month
Google developed FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) as an end-run around 3rd party cookies, but it turns out many consider them to just be Cookies v2 (now built into your browser). Certainly in Europe, privacy regulators are not...
by Surur
2 months
In 2019 Spotify complained to the European Union about what they perceived to be Apple’s anti-competitive policies which were hurting their business. Today the European Commission issued preliminary findings which confirmed ...
by Surur
6 months
We wrote earlier on the new limitations of service related to the message on Facebook Messenger and Instagram saying “Some features not available”. The company has now posted a blog post explaining the limitations an...
by Pradeep
7 months
The European Commission today announced that Amazon has breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in online retail markets. The main complaint is that Amazon uses non-public business data of independent sellers who sel...
by Surur
9 months
The European Union is coming to the rescue of consumers again with new rules which would reign in abuse by platform owners and OEMs. According to the Financial Times, EU regulators are planning to soon pass the Digital Services Ac...
by Surur
9 months
In 2016 the European Commission ruled that Apple had been given an unfair tax advantage by Ireland and owed 13 billion Euro ($14.9 billion) in back taxes to the Irish government. Both Apple and Ireland appealed the ruling and in J...
by Surur
9 months
A bit like a reverse TikTok, Facebook is threatening to exit the EU market after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) ruled that they company could not transfer European user data to USA due to privacy concerns. In a court...
by Lewis White
10 months
The European Union has revealed that they’re aware of the restrictive Apple App Store practices that are blocking services like Microsoft’s Project xCloud from releasing on iOS devices. Reported by Reuters, the restr...
by Surur
11 months
The European Court of Justice has just struck down the EU-US Privacy Sheild agreement, which has allowed US companies to transfer EU user data to USA, on the condition that the data would be dealt with to the same standard of requ...
by Surur
1 year
The European Union is on a tear with proposals which will force companies to make electronics more sustainable. We have already heard how the EU plans to force phone companies to settle on only one charging connector (likely USB-C...
by Pradeep
1 year
Recently we reported that Apple may be forced to ship iPhones with USB-C port in the European Union. As we expected, EU parliament this week voted 582-40 in favor of a resolution to urge action by the European Commission on a comm...