The US State Department yesterday announced the debut of the thoughtfully named Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. We are happy to learn that their CDP bureau will address issues related to national security, digital technology, and digital policy – and not a moment too soon! Looking forward to working in tandem to help inform on privacy and digital data issues.
Here’s a surprise: European Union anti-trust regulators are attacking a tech giant that isn’t Google, Facebook, or Amazon. The regulators are studying whether Microsoft’s cloud service business has continued anti-competitive practices that earned it €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) in fines in the past, or maybe has found some new ones.
Today’s cars have their own agenda, which go well beyond just getting you from point A to B, and California is taking issue with that. In fact, the state is evolving new rules to allow you to opt-out of current default settings that enable your seemingly passive vehicle to broadcast your location to insurance companies and others (including the automaker) for the purpose of offering you ads for products and services. New rules planned to be promulgated this year under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) will face a tough... Read More >
There’s probably no limit to Amazon’s greed – because capitalism – but there are constraints as governments regulate BigTech more aggressively and, just maybe, the free market works its wonders. Amazon cited “seller sentiment related to the fee” in its statement pulling back from its planned 2% fee on sellers who don’t use its Prime fulfillment services. But looming antitrust cases likely had something to do with it.