EU opens preliminary investigations into Google and Facebook’s data practices, assessing whether the 2 US tech firms are complying with its rules in the region.
to assess whether the e-retailer was complying with European rules on treating data from independent retailers.
“E-commerce has boosted retail competition and brought more choice and better prices. We need to ensure that large online platforms don’t eliminate these benefits through anti-competitive behavior,” Margrethe Vestager, the E.U.’s competition chief, said at the time. Vestager, who started her second term in Brussels on Sunday, has led a wider clampdown on how tech giants operate across the 28 E.U. member states. She has asked Ireland to collect 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes from Apple, fined Google a combined of $9.5 billion in antitrust cases, and also accused Facebook of misleading E.U. regulators over its acquisition of WhatsApp.
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