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UKs COVID-19 health data contracts with Google and Palantir finally emerge

Contracts for relatively a couple of coronavirus wisdom gives that the United Kingdom govt inked in haste with US tech giants, in combination with Google and Palantir, plus a UK-based AI corporate known as College, were published in recent times by means of openDemocracy and law corporate Foxglove — which had threatened criminal movement for withholdi…
Contracts for a number of coronavirus data deals that the UK government inked in haste with US tech giants, including Google and Palantir, plus a UK-based AI firm called Faculty, have been published today by openDemocracy and law firm Foxglove — which had threatened legal action for withholdi…

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  2. "In a set-back for Googles plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced its opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns being attached to the proposal from multiple quarters". (August 4, 2020)
  3. "Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize seeking to mobilize its users against big media". (August 17, 2020)
  4. "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)
  5. "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)
  6. "Googles push to phase out third party tracking cookies aka its Privacy Sandbox initiative is facing a competition challenge in Europe". (November 23, 2020)
  7. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
  8. "Google has made its pitch to shape the next decades of digital regulation across the European Union, submitting a 135-page response yesterday to the consultation on the forthcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) which will update the blocs long-standing rules around e-commerce". (September 4, 2020)
  9. "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)
  10. "The deadline for Europe to make a call on the Google -Fitbit merger has been pushed out again with EU regulators now having until January 8, 2021, to take a decision". (October 16, 2020)
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