Antitrust in Tech
Google Chrome’s default restrictions of third-party cookies
Google announced its pilot phase, restricting third-party cookies by default for 1% of users (Mode B) on Chrome within the framework of its Privacy Sandbox commitments.
France Antitrust watchdog: Google failed to provide adequate information to its consumers
Yesterday, on 4 July 2023, the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control announced a sanction against Google for failing its information obligation toward its users.
UK CMA’s guidance on testing Google’s Privacy Sandbox
Last week, on 29 June 2023, the UK Competition & Market Authority published its guidance to third parties on how they can test Google’s Privacy Sandbox tools.
EU: Google’s abusive practices in online adtech
The EU Commission considers that Google breached EU antitrust rules, distorting competition in the advertising technology (adtech), by favouring its own online display ad tech services to the detriment of competing providers of adtech services, advertisers and online publishers.
The metaverse these days
We are yet sceptical about destiny of the metaverse and Meta is facing many antitrust cases regarding its most-invested commercial activity.
Weekly Legal Updates in Tech – U.S. lawsuits
US lawsuits in regard to Google’s advertising business unit and Microsoft, GitHub and Open AI fair use of open source code on GitHub.
