In Brief: Amazon Halo is “most invasive tech” [Washington Post]
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Business fines to be imposed for collecting or selling.
Facebook, Google and Apple are targets of EU draft legislation introduced to curb their global control. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), backed by fifteen former presidents and premiers of EU states, aims to shift the power balance away from big tech.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.