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Astroturfing in the EU by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo?

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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May 22 2013

Accusations are flying in the EU about astroturfing by members of the European Privacy Association (EPA) in spite of the EU requirement that

Google's Android operating system now target of EU antitrust charges

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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April 9 2013

FairSearch.org filed a complaint with the EU asserting that Google's use of the Android operating system dominates the mobile marketplace and is

Privacy update - EU launches enforcement against Google

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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April 3 2013

Google's March 2012 Privacy Policy has never been well-received in the EU, and after waiting for Google to change its Privacy Policy the EU now plans

EU fines Microsoft $732 million for antitrust violation

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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March 8 2013

The EU Competition Commission concluded that Microsoft failed to comply with its 2009 agreement to offer browser choices to 15 million Windows

Google now dealing with new EU antitrust complaint

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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February 12 2013

Just as Google proposed a settlement with the EU, on January 30, 2013 i-Comp filed a new complaint of antitrust charges about which Bloomberg

Cybercrime makes headlines again

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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January 18 2013

The EU is considering a plan to require Internet companies to report loss or theft of personal information. The New York Times reported that the new

Google's antitrust problems

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union, USA
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November 29 2012

Recent reports indicate that the US and EU antitrust regulators are considering filing suits against Google, but not for control over the search engine market, which clearly Google controls

EU claims Google violates privacy laws

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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October 24 2012

The 27 heads of European data agencies complained that Google’s failed to respond adequately to charges that Google’s new Privacy Policy effective on March 1, 2012 violated the EU privacy laws which are referred to as the 1995 Data Directive “Directive 9546EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.“

EU claims that Microsoft breached antitrust settlement agreement

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union
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July 17 2012

In 2009 Microsoft agreed to offer EU customers a browser choice of 12 options until 2014, but apparently Windows 7 released in February 2011 did not contain that option

Google's new privacy policies break EU laws

Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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European Union, France
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March 2 2012

Although Google claims its new Privacy Policy helps simplify privacy, the EU claims otherwise and specifically that the new Privacy Policy “makes it impossible to understand which purposes, personal data, recipients or access rights are relevant to the use of a specific service.”