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Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. The decision follows the passage of a law in July that obliges any news aggregator quoting snippets of text or using… Read more »
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Google has decided to shut down Google News in Spain. The decision follows the passage of a law in July that obliges any news aggregator quoting snippets of text or using… Read more »
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The move has big implications for latency and resilience, and of course data protection — a particular concern for German businesses. Read more »
When it comes to dealing with European privacy law, there are no easy answers for Google nor its advisers — but the outcome of this complex debate will have implications for… Read more »
Google’s new European transparency report gives everyone a much clearer picture of how the company is handling requests for privacy-based de-linking — and how complex the whole situation is. Read more »
The European Commission says there’s sufficient competition in much of the fixed telephony market, which is in any case being usurped by mobile and VoIP. However, the EU’s consumer organization has… Read more »
Back in June, the European Commission started sniffing around Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland, to see whether the Irish government’s acceptance of the firm’s elaborate tax avoidance tricks amounted to unlawful… Read more »