Tag: Facebook
Turkish Watchdog Probes WhatsApp, Facebook Over Privacy Policy
Turkey's competition regulator has launched an investigation against WhatsApp and Facebook due to their new privacy policy, Anadolu news agency reported on Monday, January...
Court Asked To Delay Consolidating Facebook Cases
According to a Bloomberg report, Facebook is asking a District of Columbia federal court to delay deciding whether it will consolidate two antitrust lawsuits...
Facebook May License Code To Competitors To Ease Antitrust Concerns
Facebook has put forward the idea of easing antitrust concerns by allowing a competitor to license access to its code and its users’ collection...
Facebook Turns Off Instagram Features For EU Users To Comply With...
Facebook is turning off a number of functions in its Instagram and Messenger apps for European users after a new European Union regulation called...
Privacy and Antitrust in Digital Platforms
By Nicholas Economides (New York University) & Ioannis Lianos (University College London)
Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users...
The FTC’s Facebook Suit: Questions and Answers
By: FTC Staff
1. What have you sued Facebook for and why?
We have sued Facebook for illegal monopolization. Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which...
Google & Facebook Agreed To Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Suit:...
Facebook and Alphabet's Google agreed to "cooperate and assist one another" in case of an investigation into their pact to work together in online...
Australian Regulator Drafts Google & Facebook Laws For Media
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman (ACCC) Rod Sims said proposed laws that will make Australia the first country in the world to force...
Facebook Slams Apple Claiming Anticompetitive Behavior In Privacy Updates
Facebook accused rival Apple of engaging in anti-competitive practices on Wednesday, December 16, firing another shot in a months long standoff between the two...
How the Facebook Case Could Revitalize Our Broken Antitrust Law
By Chris Sagers, SLATE
For years, critics of Silicon Valley have been talking about a coming “techlash” in American antitrust law, but it’s only in...