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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.
EU: ENISA report on Digital Identity Standards
Yesterday, on 3 July 2023, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity released its report on the most important standards and standardisation organisations of Digital Identity.
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.
Netherlands: US export control, legal exception of prohibited discrimination
On 20 June 2023, College voor de Rechten van de Mens published the News Release about the discrimination in ASML’s hiring policy based on nationality.
CJEU Advocate General opinions: personal data in criminal cases
The CJEU published the opinions of the Advocates Generals on (i) liability for the damage occurred relating to unlawful data processing, (ii) judicial remedy available to data subject against an independent supervisory authority.
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.
ENISA: Supply Chain Cybersecurity good practices
ENISA released on 13 June 2023 a report on current supply chain cybersecurity practices of essential and important entities in the EU, following its study results in 2022, focusing on investments of cybersecurity budgets amongst the EU organisations.
ENISA: Cloud and Remote Identity Proofing
The ENISA published the content of a workshop, supporting the area of Trust Services and Digital Wallets and its report on moving trust service to the cloud.
EU: Freedom to provide information society services – Google, Meta and Tiktok
Directive 2000/31/EC prohibits a Member State from providing the legislative measures restricting the freedom to provide information society services from another Member State.
EU Innovation Council’s Scale Up 100 initiative
On 1 June 2023, the EU Innovation Council (EIC) announced its Scale Up 100 Initiative. It aims to determine, encourage 100 promising deep tech companies throughout Europe.
EU: final proposal for FRAND regulation
Last week ended with the final proposal of the EU Commission for FRAND regulation of 27 April 2023.