Ireland's privacy regulator has sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop sending EU user data to the US, the first big step in enforcing July's Privacy Shield
Privacy regulator's order to suspend the company's data transfers to the U.S. cites concerns over American government surveillance practices
EU antitrust regulators launch sectorial inquiry into IoT, including interoperability of devices and how smart assistants like Siri or Alexa use collected data
and now sweeping regulation is on the table. Preambles saying “I am not a human” is considered. https://twitter.com/... Dan Stoller / @realdanstoller : New: Voice assistants and th...
EU launches a sweeping antitrust inquiry into how tech giants might be using voice assistants like Siri and Alexa to restrict access to data
- Vestager warns that voice assistants may offer less choice — Some 400 firms to be quizzed, EU to present results in 2021
Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July
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Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July
Now it's official. — Now, it's Facebook official. The social network said a federal court on Thursday officially approved a settlement Facebook reached with the US Federal Trade...
Source: Facebook held talks to acquire Fitbit but wanted to pay roughly half of the $2.1B that Google eventually agreed to pay
it has to be extremely valuable to Google. Of course, the acquisition can also affect that trust, if no lessons are learnt from Nest. https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherl...
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.
Google can make a success of Fitbit if it can be managed as well as the integration of HTC's smartphone team, but it can also end up as a fiasco like Nest
The HTC acquisition went well, Nest did not — will this? — Google is buying Fitbit and the reasons why are both simple and complicated.