Spotify Fined  Million by Swedish Privacy Body for Breaching EU Data Rules

Spotify Fined $5 Million by Swedish Privacy Body for Breaching EU Data Rules

Music streaming giant Spotify was on Tuesday fined $5.4 million (roughly Rs. 40 crore) for not properly informing users on how data it collected on them was being used, Swedish authorities said. Spotify said it planned to appeal the decision. The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection’s (IMY) said it had…

EU Antitrust Regulators Quiz Microsoft’s Rivals on Request for Customer Data

EU Antitrust Regulators Quiz Microsoft’s Rivals on Request for Customer Data

EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft’s rivals what kind of customer data they are required to provide to the US tech giant as part of their Azure cloud contracts, six months after a trade group complained about its cloud computing practices. Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), whose members…

Microsoft Said to Have Offered to Charge for Its Office Product to Address EU Antitrust Concerns

Microsoft Said to Have Offered to Charge for Its Office Product to Address EU Antitrust Concerns

Microsoft has offered to charge different prices for its Office product with and without its Teams app to stave off a possible EU antitrust investigation and fine, two people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft has been seeking to address the EU competition enforcer’s concerns since last year after Salesforce-owned…

EU Lawmakers Committee Reaches Preliminary Deal on Artificial Intelligence Act

EU Lawmakers Committee Reaches Preliminary Deal on Artificial Intelligence Act

A committee of European Union lawmakers on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a European Artificial Intelligence Act, which would pave the way to the first ever regulation of AI. “Against conservative wishes for more surveillance and leftist fantasies of over-regulation, parliament found a solid compromise that would regulate AI…

TikTok Usage Banned on Irish Government Devices Amid Cybersecurity Concerns

TikTok Usage Banned on Irish Government Devices Amid Cybersecurity Concerns

The state body responsible for advising the Irish government on cyber security recommended on Friday that staff at government departments and state agencies not use Chinese-owned video app TikTok on official devices. A number of Western countries including Britain, the US and other European Union member states have barred TikTok…

Qualcomm Looks to Europe Court to Overturn Over 0 Million Fine in EU Antitrust Case

Qualcomm Looks to Europe Court to Overturn Over $250 Million Fine in EU Antitrust Case

US chipmaker Qualcomm returned to Europe’s second-top court on Monday seeking to overturn a EUR 242 million ($258.4 million or roughly Rs. 2,125 crore) EU antitrust fine, a year after it convinced the same court to throw out a much bigger penalty in another antitrust case. The European Commission slapped…

WhatsApp Agrees to Be More Transparent Over Privacy Policy Changes, Says EU

WhatsApp Agrees to Be More Transparent Over Privacy Policy Changes, Says EU

Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021, the European Commission said on Monday, following complaints from consumer bodies across Europe. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and the European Network of consumer authorities told WhatsApp last year that it had…

TikTok Faces Another Ban, EU Bodies Direct Staff to Remove App Citing Security Reasons

TikTok Faces Another Ban, EU Bodies Direct Staff to Remove App Citing Security Reasons

The European Union’s two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its users’ data. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, is under scrutiny from governments and regulators because of concerns that China’s government…

Google, Apple, Meta, Netflix May Have to Pay Network Costs as EU Launches Telecom Sector Consultation

Google, Apple, Meta, Netflix May Have to Pay Network Costs as EU Launches Telecom Sector Consultation

The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe’s telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Meta Platform and Netflix to pay some network costs. For more than two decades Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and other operators have…

EU’s Pending Banking Law Calls for Fast-Track Crypto Capital Rules for Banks

EU’s Pending Banking Law Calls for Fast-Track Crypto Capital Rules for Banks

Tough capital rules for banks holding cryptoassets must be fast-tracked in the European Union’s pending banking law if Europe wants to avoid missing a globally-agreed deadline, the bloc’s executive has said. The global Basel Committee of banking regulators from the world’s main financial centres has set a January 2025 deadline…