Tag: Google
New Zealand: Facebook and Google could face higher tax rates
The Government is exploring a move to tax digital giants like Facebook and Google more for their income made within New Zealand.
Prime Minister Jacinda...
India: Regulator probes Google/Android
India’s antitrust commission is looking into accusations that Alphabet’s unit Google abuses its popular Android mobile operating system to block its rivals, reported Reuters.
The...
UK: Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content says...
Online platforms including Google, Facebook, and Apple should be regulated in how they distribute news content, according to a new UK government report.
The report,...
Australia: ACCC will keep pressure on Google and Facebook
According to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman, Rod Sims says Facebook and Google must shoulder...
France: Regulator orders Google to take measures on advertising
France's competition regulator has ordered Google to take measures regarding some of its advertising methods, claiming these methods had hit French firm Amadeus which...
EU: Google GDPR complaint suggests personal data misuse
A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint shows that Google may have misused people’s personal data and categorized them in highly sensitive ways, according...
US: Tech companies spent big on lobbying in 2018
Alphabet's Google disclosed on Tuesday, January 22, that it spent a company-record US$21.2 million on lobbying the United States government in 2018, topping its...
France: Google hit with US$57M GDPR fine
France’s data privacy watchdog has fined Google €50 million (US$57 million), the first penalty for a US tech giant under new European data privacy...
Germany: Google/Eyeo change their contract terms with ad blockers
In cooperation with the Austrian competition authority (BWB) the Bundeskartellamt conducted an administrative proceeding against Google, Mountain View and Eyeo, Cologne for concluding anticompetitive...
EU: Google facing third antitrust fine?
According to Bloomberg, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is set to announce a penalty targeting Google’s AdSense advertising service in the coming weeks.
The EU stated...
