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Googles location monitoring after all below formal probe in Europe

Google’s lead knowledge regulator in Europe has after all opened a proper investigation into the tech massive’s processing of location knowledge — greater than a yr after receiving a sequence of court cases from client rights teams throughout Europe. The Irish Information Coverage Fee (DPC) announ…
Google’s lead data regulator in Europe has finally opened a formal investigation into the tech giant’s processing of location data — more than a year after receiving a series of complaints from consumer rights groups across Europe. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announ…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  3. "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)
  4. "The Bundeskartellamt, Germanys very active competition authority, isnt letting the grass grow under new powers it gained this year to tackle Big Tech: The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has just announced a third proceeding against Google". (June 4, 2021)
  5. "A flagship framework for gathering Internet users consent for targeting with behavioral ads which is designed by ad industry body, the IAB Europe fails to meet the required legal standards of data protection, according to findings by its EU data supervisor". (October 16, 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. "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)
  8. "Following the landmark CJEU Schrems II ruling in July, which invalidated the four-year-old EU-US Privacy Shield, European data protection regulators have today published 38-pages of guidancefor businesses stuck trying to navigate the uncertainty around how to (legally) transfer perso". (November 11, 2020)
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  10. "The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned". (December 11, 2020)
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