antitrust
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Apple Defends Delay of iOS 14 Feature Limiting App Tracking, Blasts Facebook
Earlier this year, human rights and privacy groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch wrote to Apple, asking why it was delaying the introduction of a feature that would force apps to receive explicit opt-in from iPhone users before tracking them. Apple responded, according to Bloomberg, with a letter slamming Facebook.
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Facebook Could Soon Be the Latest Big Tech Company Hit With Antitrust Charges
U.S. State and federal investigators are planning to slap Facebook with antitrust charges as soon as November, four people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post. Such a lawsuit would mark the government’s latest crackdown on the biggest names in the tech industry, including Apple, Google and Amazon, for holding monopolies on their respective…
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Google Antitrust Lawsuit Aims at the Heart of its $1.4 Trillion Business
After a 16-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, arguing that the company’s search app — which is a permanent, preloaded fixture on Android phones — hurts search competition and disproportionately funnels traffic to Google’s ad business.
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We Have a Date: Google, Facebook and Twitter CEOs Will Testify Before U.S. Congress on October 29
Less than a week before the 2020 presidential election, three of the biggest names in tech — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about a longstanding law that protects websites from liability for user-generated content.