#Google #AWU #unions #transparency #antitrust #GiftArticle
"The agreement is another blow to Google’s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google’s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit — to have employees ignore the antitrust battle and remain focused on their work."
Top EU official downplays expectations over digital fines for Apple and Meta.
The chief of the European Commission’s competition directorate downplayed expectations over the size of the fines that the EU executive is set to hand down to Apple and Meta for infringing the bloc’s digital antitrust rules.
The bloc’s Digital Markets Act is about compliance, not fines, says Olivier Guersent.
That's really bad:
"Less than two weeks before the start of a #landmark #antitrust trial against tech giant #Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald #Trump and Meta CEO Mark #Zuckerberg is stoking fears in Washington that the White House could pull the plug on the whole case."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/washington-worries-trump-could-bail-out-zuckerberg-00273712
"Apple fined €150 million over App Tracking Transparency issues"
Strafe hat Autorité de la concurrence aus Frankfreich verhängt. Ist auch ein Verfahren anhängig in Deutschland @bfdi und falls nicht, warum wird in Deutschland nicht ermittelt? Die Situation dürfte identisch zu der in Frankreich (gewesen) sein.
Die Behörde: "Although the introduction of ATT has impacted all application publishers, the framework has been particularly harmful for smaller publishers that do not enjoy alternative targeting possibilities, in particular in the absence of sufficient proprietary data."
Bleeping Computer: "As the French competition watchdog explained, the ATT framework fails to comply with GDPR standards due to its lack of neutrality and the overly complicated user experience it implements."
#Datenschutz #Monopol #monopolisierung #machtmissbrauch #antitrust #kartellrecht
PS: Ist das #Bundeskartellamt eigentlich im Fediverse? Auf deren Webseite war zumindest im Footer nichts zu finden dazu.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-fined-150-million-over-app-tracking-transparency-issues/
#Amazon’s bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over #TikTok’s ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep #NationalSecurity concerns over the app’s Chinese ownership, & passed a #law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in Jan.
#Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of #TikTok, …as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the #UnitedStates….
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President #JDVance & #HowardLutnick, the #commerce secy….
#USpol #Trump #broligarchy #JeffBezos #law #tech #Antitrust
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D95FBEC6-2C4F-46F0-AAEC-465CE954890A
ICYMI: Apple fined €150 million: ATT framework ruled anticompetitive: Apple's App Tracking Transparency approach deemed disproportionate and harmful to smaller publishers. https://ppc.land/apple-fined-eu150-million-att-framework-ruled-anticompetitive/ #Apple #AppTrackingTransparency #Privacy #Antitrust #SmallBusinesses
#Apple receives #antitrust fine in #France for “ask app not to track” framework: After preliminary findings in Germany, #France went a step further in finding that #Apple broke the law. https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/apple-receives-antitrust-fine-in-france-for-ask-app-not-to-track-framework/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
Electronic Frontier Foundation: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.. “Antitrust enforcers have proposed a set of complementary remedies, from giving users a choice of search engine, to forcing Google to spin off Chrome and possibly Android into separate companies. Overall, this is the right approach. Google’s dominance in […]
The European Union is ordering Apple to open up some of its core technologies to make it easier for competitors to develop phones, headsets, and other accessories that are more interoperable with iPhones and iPads. #EuropeanUnion #Antitrust #DMA #Apple https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_816
"The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed.
On the FTC’s website, the page hosting all of the agency’s business-related blogs and guidance no longer includes any information published during former president Joe Biden’s administration, current and former FTC employees, who spoke under anonymity for fear of retaliation, tell WIRED. These blogs contained advice from the FTC on how big tech companies could avoid violating consumer protection laws."
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/
"The FTC is an independent agency founded 111 years ago to fight fraudsters and monopolists," said fired commissioner Alvaro Bedoya. "Now, the president wants the FTC to be a lap dog for his golfing buddies." https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fires-fcc-commissioners #FTC #competition #antitrust #uslaw #uspol
@protonprivacy Gail Slater has already started dismantling DoJ #antitrust efforts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doj-antitrust-head-targets-pricey-consultants-amid-doge-cost-cutting-2025-03-16/
Are you satisfied yet, Andy?
Toute nouvelle livraison de la newsletter de l'Observatoire des multinationales !
Au menu : #genderwashing, histoire et actualité du mouvement #antitrust, guerre fiscale aux Etats-Unis, terres rares à Madagascar, et beaucoup, beaucoup de #TotalEnergies et d#Ouganda.
Pour lire cette dernière édition : https://multinationales.org/fr/a-chaud/actualites/l-enfer-est-pave-de-beaux-discours-la-lettre-du-13-mars-2025
Et pour la recevoir directement : https://multinationales.org/fr/pages/lettre-d-information-de-l-observatoire
I need a support group for people as pissed off as I am at corporations like Apple for keeping as many people as they do from making the most of modern computing while extracting as much as possible from those people.
DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next — https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-chrome-android-could-be-next/
#HackerNews #DOJ #Google #Chrome #Android #Antitrust #TechNews #BreakingNews
#Google tells Trump’s #DOJ that forcing a #Chrome sale would harm national #security
Google is reportedly pushing the argument that forcing it to spin off parts of the business and limit certain investments would constitute a national security threat.
Google's #antitrust situation got much worse this past August when it lost the long-running case targeting its search business.
#nationalsecurity
Last was the New York University School of Law conference on the 25th anniversary of the Microsoft browser antitrust decision. The refusal of the Chicago school folks to acknowledge the abject failure of their approach here is disappointing, but the last panel has some excellent review by Eleanor Fox, Erika Douglas, and Thomas Höppner
Talk videos are all here: https://www.law.nyu.edu/conferences/2025-Microsoft25-Antitrust-Symposium (5/5) #law #antitrust
Next was a sobering discussion with Tommaso Valletti on why competition policy is dead at the Digital Markets Research Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Unsy3jgbA (3/5) #law #antitrust
