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How #Facebook spies competitive products using an in-house #VPN on users’ phones: Facebook engineers proposed using Onavo, which when activated had the advantage of reading all of the device’s network traffic before it got encrypted and sent over the internet.
“We now have the capability to measure detailed

The #EU Parliament’s ban on #Amazon lobbyists is a good start. But, frankly, the least the public should be able to expect is for the world’s biggest companies to not receive public money without being held to the same standards as a family-run farm.
https://www.politico.eu/article/its-time-to-hit-amazon-where-it-really-hurts-in-its-pocket/

This will be a long battle: The #EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices.
Alphabet, which owns Google, Meta, and Apple are all being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (#DMA) introduced

Fallas fiesta in #Valencia, Spain is not only one night or a weekend event, it is celebrated during three weeks in March. The events that draw the most crowds are during the final week and the closing weekend. #travel #photography
https://klaava.com/books/fallas-fiesta-in-valencia-spain/

#social #media network effect: “We are increasingly going to be locked into a completely curated universe which is governed by corporations rather than ourselves,” he warns. We are already starting to see something like this in China.
You can buy goods on WeChat, get credit, submit your tax

#Web3 is not forgotten: “We’re trying to realize that decentralized internet and give power back to the users.” Edge & Node is a company focused on creating and supporting #decentralized applications (dApps) and protocols. It’s the initial team supporting The Graph, a decentralized network that indexes, queries and

#EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned #Apple and #Meta Platforms on their new fees for their services, saying that this may hinder users from enjoying the benefits of the Digital Markets Act which aims to give them more choices.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-vestager-warns-about-apple-meta-fees-disparaging-rival-products-2024-03-19/

In France, #Google has been slapped with a €250mn fine for breaching #EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with #media #publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models without permission.
The regulator found Google guilty of scraping content from news websites

Requires connection to #Google account – what could possibly go wrong from #security perspective? #Android digital car key lets you use an Android phone as a car key. You can lock, unlock, start your car, and perform more functions from your compatible Android phone. But is the