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Europe’s Margrethe Vestager Uses a Rarely Used Weapon to Take On Big Tech

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Already considered the world’s most assertive regulator of the technology industry, the European authorities on Wednesday signaled an even more aggressive approach by applying a rarely used rule to order a company to halt a potentially anticompetitive practice as investigators explore the case. The European Commission’s antitrust enforcer, Margrethe Vestager, said “interim measures” were being […]

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EU ruling forces social media firms to take down illegal content worldwide

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Facebook has pledged to fight an EU ruling that would compel it to globally remove content deemed to be illegal in certain jurisdictions. The latest ruling from the European Court of Justice has concluded that social media firms such as Facebook can be compelled to globally remove content that violates local laws. Currently, material that

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Ireland says EU Apple judgement is ‘fundamentally flawed’ in appeal

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Apple and the Irish Government have launched their appeal against the EU Commission’s 2016 tax ruling. Lawyers representing Ireland have called the European Commission’s ruling that the country gave Apple €13bn in illegal tax aid “fundamentally flawed” today (17 September) in an appeal against the decision in one of the EU’s highest courts, according to Reuters.

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New EU quantum project aims for ultra-secure communication in Europe

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The EU has launched a new project that aims to build a testbed for secure quantum communications in several European nations. The European Commission (EC) has announced the launch of OpenQKD, a project that will see the installation of a quantum communication infrastructure testbed that would be significantly more secure than existing technology. In particular,

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