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Huawei reveals it has no 5G contracts from mainland China (Financial Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 07:08Digital trade is stumbling block in US-China trade talks (Financial Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 11:10Huawei ramps up foreign university investment despite US pressure (Financial Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 10:47
European Union fines Google €1.5 billion for antitrust violations
The European Union fined Google €1.49 billion for hampering potential rival search advertisers between 2006 and 2016, closing the last formal EU investigation into the US tech company.
Silicon Valley lobbies hard to kill off California privacy rules (Financial Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/06/2019 - 10:50Huawei Chairman Op-Ed: The US attacks on Huawei betray its fear of being left behind (Financial Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 10:19Twitter toughens up campaign rules for EU elections (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/19/2019 - 06:21
UK MPs slam Facebook for data abuse, call for social media regulator
British Members of Parliament have called for a regulator to police content on social media sites, financed by a new levy on tech companies, and an inquiry into the effect of disinformation on past electoral contests. Concluding an 18-month long investigation into “fake news”, disinformation and political campaigns, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee also accused Facebook of “intentionally and knowingly” violating data privacy laws and said it should be the subject of a probe by the competition and data watchdogs.
Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
Organisations run by Charles Koch have begun to lobby US politicians on data privacy, as the American billionaire and conservative donor deepens his unlikely alliance with Silicon Valley, and Google in particular.