Facebook faces new UK class action after data harvesting scandal
The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission
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ByteDance’s Douyin sues Tencent alleging monopolistic behaviour
ByteDance has asked the court to order Tencent to desist with such restrictions, ByteDance said. Douyin is the Chinese version
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Tough EU tech rules: here’s the what, why and what comes next
Here is what European Union regulators hope to achieve, and the factors that will affect the final legislation expected to
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US court terminates $100-million lawsuit against PM Modi, Amit Shah
The lawsuit challenged the Indian Parliament’s decision on Jammu and Kashmir that abrogated the special privileges of the State and
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Google violated U.S. labour laws in clampdown on worker organizing, regulator says
The U.S. labour regulator found Google unlawfully placed employees on administrative leave and terminated them for accessing documents related to
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China ups scrutiny of tech giants with draft anti-monopoly rules
The move comes after China’s Financial Stability and Development Committee, a cabinet-level body headed by Vice Premier Liu He, last
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Tougher new rules for tech giants, more power to enforcers, Europe antitrust chief says
Tech giants will have to do more to weed out illegal and harmful content while online gatekeepers will be bound
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Google’s antitrust case could benefit Microsoft’s Bing search engine
From at least 2007 through 2015, Microsoft lobbied lawmakers, funded private lawsuits, commissioned opposition research and academic papers and even
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Facebook sued two companies for data scraping. What does this mean?
Data scraping isn’t declared illegal, but the intention of the practice can be examined. Misuse of the method include collecting
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Google faces new antitrust case in India over abuse in smart TVs market, sources say
The case has been filed by two Indian antitrust lawyers, Kshitiz Arya and Purushottam Anand. They both confirmed the case
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