UK will order Facebook and Google to change data policies – Report
The US firm's dominance of the internet is out of kilter with the EU's anti-trust legislation.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's chief of competition, made some fairly threatening remarks against Google in a story published Sunday by the Telegraph, portending that the global governing body is considering breaking up the tech giant.
It is appealing the ruling, but two other separate cases are ongoing. We'll keep an ear to the ground for more on these new features, so keep it here at SlashGear.
Google is reportedly looking into using blockchain technology to boost the search engine giant's cloud business, according to sources familiar with the matter at Bloomberg.
"We have proven their dominance in search and we have found they have misused this dominance to promote themselves and diminish competitors".
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Zuckerberg said an app built by a university researcher "leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014". We'd expect it to contend that it had only limited involvement with the data despite Nix's management.
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The commission, the executive arm of the European Union, says Facebook told regulators that it would be unable to automatically match an individual user's Facebook account with his or her WhatsApp account. "You get to be dominant and you get a special responsibility that you do not destroy the already weakened competition", she was quoted as saying.
Mrs. Vestager, who has been in the job since 2014, has ordered the Republic of Ireland and Luxembourg to demand back taxes.
Facebook is facing the heat after Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting company, was accused of harvesting data of up to 50 million Facebook users without permission and using the data to help politicians, including US President Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign.
Last week, European Union heads of state and governments agreed a joint statement calling for "social networks" to guarantee "full protection of citizens' privacy and personal data".
Google has presented a plan of action to remedy the anti-competitive behaviour, which antitrust officials are still scrutinising but last month, a group of Google's opponents said its actions were "essentially meaningless" without breaking the internet giant up.
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