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Europe urged to dam Google-Fitbit forward of main digital coverage overhaul

The European Fee will have to block the Google -Fitbit merger as a question of democratic an important, remarkable educational and writer Shoshana Zuboff has warned. The Harvard professor who wrote the defining e e book on surveillance capitalism has end up to be the most recent voice raised against the $2.1 billion wisdom+…
The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned. The Harvard professor who wrote the defining book on surveillance capitalism has become the latest voice raised against the $2.1 billion data+…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "A coalition of 135 startups and tech companies with services in verticals including travel, accommodation and jobs have written to the European Commission to urge antitrust action against Google warning that swift enforcement is needed or some of their businesses may not survive". (November 12, 2020)
  3. "Googles push to phase out third party tracking cookies aka its Privacy Sandbox initiative is facing a competition challenge in Europe". (November 23, 2020)
  4. "Human rights NGO, Amnesty International, has written to the EUs competition regulator calling for Googles acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked unless meaningful safeguards can be baked in". (November 27, 2020)
  5. "European lawmakers are considering new rules for Internet giants that could include forcing them to share data with smaller rivals and/or put narrow limits on how they can use data in a bid to level the digital playing field". (September 30, 2020)
  6. "European antitrust regulators now have until almost the end of the year to take a decision on whether to green light Googles planned acquisition of Fitbit". (September 23, 2020)
  7. "Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europes top court this summer". (September 11, 2020)
  8. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  9. "Googles plan to end support for third-party cookies in the Chrome browser and its Chromium engine is under investigation by the U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)". (January 8, 2021)
  10. "Europe has greenlit Googles $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal". (December 17, 2020)
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