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Tech Brief: the encryption question, NIS2 agreed, platform workers’ battle
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “Today’s proposal sets clear obligations for companies to detect and report the abuse of children, with strong safeguards guaranteeing...
Google launches tool to extend licensing deals to more EU publishers
Google has struck licensing deals with more than 300 EU news publications and launched a tool to extend agreements to other outlets, the company announced on Wednesday (11 May).
German competition authority tightens its grip on Meta
Stricter antitrust measures can be taken against US giant Meta, Germany's Bundeskartellamt announced on Wednesday (4 May), after similar measures were taken toward Google. Meanwhile, Germany is lobbying for stricter EU competition rules.
Google urges court to scrap $1.6 bln EU antitrust fine
Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe's second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising.
Digital Brief: Google’s new cookies policy, CJEU slams data retention in Ireland, France
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “Narratives borrowed from the Kremlin’s playbook [have] resurfaced in Chinese state-controlled channels” -EUvsDisinfo Story of the week: Google...
German regulator welcomes Google’s ‘reject all’ cookie button plan
Google's plans to include a "reject all" button on cookie banners after its existing policy violated EU law was welcomed by Hamburg's top data protection official, who presented his activity report on Thursday (7 April). EURACTIV Germany reports.
Corint Media sues Microsoft for €20m over press content use
Corint Media has enforced the press publishers’ right against Microsoft - a legal action that comes after over two years of discussions on the licensing of press content use, for which Corint demands a multiple of Microsoft’s offer.
Digital Brief: DSA fourth trilogue, DMA diverging views, France’s fine for Google
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “Step by step we are getting closer to a deal. Still issues we don’t agree on, but hopefully we...
Google fined 2 mln euros in France for abusive commercial practices
A court in France fined Google two million euros on Monday (28 March) for the "significant imbalances" that the company has created with application developers through clauses deemed unfair.
French presidential election: consensus among candidates on European tech protectionism
"Buy European Act" or not, the presidential candidates agree on the need to direct more public procurement towards European digital actors in order to be able, one day maybe, to fight on equal terms against the American or Chinese giants.
Breaking digital dominance
Today’s expected agreement on the Digital Markets Act is essential to crack market dominance in digital markets. However, if negotiators fail to agree on effective tools to get under the skin of the underlying business model of advertising, we risk not only stifling of innovation and poor data protection but on top of that also societal harms, such as disinformation and hate speech, write René Repasi and Paul Tang.
What will Europe’s digital economy look like after the Digital Services Act?
Rewatch this EURACTIV Debate to find out about the DSA and its impact on Europe’s digital economy. Discussed questions included: - What will change for users of online services? - Will online marketplaces continue to function effectively with the proposed KYBC and product requirements? - How will ‘user redress’ work? - What effect will content moderation requirements have on user content? - Can the data protection and data access requirements operate in parallel? - What will digital advertising look like?
Digital Brief: health data space, Russian internet sovereignty, DMA’s final rush
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.
EU, UK launch parallel antitrust probe on Google-Meta ad tech deal
The European Commission launched on Friday (11 March) a competition investigation into whether Google and Meta had violated EU antitrust law in their use of online display advertising, in parallel with the UK’s Competition Market Authority's own probe.
EU governments call on online platform to scale up fact-checking efforts
EU telecoms ministers have urged digital companies to ensure their anti-disinformation capacity is adequate in Central Eastern Europe, a primary target of Russian hybrid warfare.
Apple halts sales in Russia in response to Ukraine invasion
Apple will stop selling its products on Russian soil following calls from Ukraine in response to the war Russia has launched against the country. EURACTIV France reports.
Google Analytics’ competitors foretaste business boost following privacy debacles
Alternatives to Google Analytics could stand to benefit if the rest of the EU decides - like the Austrian and French data protection authorities already have - that the tool can no longer be used because it does not comply with EU privacy standards.
Google to change privacy policy on Android under UK’s competition oversight
Google is expanding its Privacy Sandbox to Android devices and the UK's antitrust watchdog is set to play a crucial role in ensuring that the tech giant does not abuse its market dominance in the process.
Meta launches Facebook News in France
Meta has launched its Facebook News service in France, which will centralise news from around 100 media outlets from across the country and will be gradually rolled out from Tuesday (15 February) until all users can access it in May.
European publishers launch competition case against Google
The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed a competition complaint against Google over what it describes as the tech company’s “stranglehold” on other businesses in the ad tech ecosystem.
Digital Brief powered by Google: Chips Act, Google Analytics strike two
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “With the European Chips Act, we are putting out the investments and the strategy. But the key to our...
France joins Austria in finding Google Analytics illegal
Google does not sufficiently guarantee it protects European's data gathered via Google Analytics, France's data watchdog CNIL announced on Thursday (10 February). With Austria having recently issued a similar decision, the days of Google Analytics in Europe could be numbered. EURACTIV France reports.
France reaffirms call for ‘EU tech awakening’
France reaffirmed its ambition to see the emergence of tech giants on European soil on Monday during the first day of the EU Digital Sovereignty Conference on Monday (7 February) in Paris. EURACTIV France reports.