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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.“

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.”

EU court ruling protects social media site

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 16 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) refused to order a Social Media site to prevent the unlawful use of copyrighted works

EU to Google - not so fast with the new privacy policies!

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 5 2012

EU officials announced that the new Google Privacy Policies may not insure compliance with EU laws and asked Google to halt these changes pending an investigation of the implications of personal data protection