Back in December, Google threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia if the country’s News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) were to become law. The NMBC wants to compensate news publishers for links to their content in Google’s search results. Days before this happened, Google just wrote up a deal with French publishers to license their […]

The newest messaging changes for European users have been outline by Facebook due to new laws regarding data security and privacy in the country. The ‘ePrivacy Directive’, or the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, is incorporating more forms of digital communication this week. The specifics of this directive includes how user data is stored and used […]

Twitter has announced that its Stories-like Fleets is going to be brought over to Japan. What is Fleets? According to Gadgetsnow.com: “It is a new feature similar to Instagram Stories where tweets automatically disappear after 24 hours. There will be no Likes, Retweets, or public replies to these tweets. The new feature, according to the company, […]

In a new report by the Wall Street Journal, Facebook has been sent a preliminary order by a European Union privacy regulator that will suspend data transfers regarding EU users to the US. The main concern for this order is due to security reasons from the European side of things. The EU wants to stem […]

The sell-off date for TikTok is ticking ever closer and now, it seems China has set some new rules that could stop the sale from potentially happening.  The Wall Street Journal reported that these rules are meant to limit the sharing technology advancements within international deals. Although ByteDane could sill go through with the sale […]

Google announced back in June that they will release a news-content licensing program that will pay publishers for high-quality content for a brand new ‘news experience’ released later this year. According to Google, this initiative is going to have “an enhanced storytelling experience that lets people go deeper into more complex stories.” Germany, Brazil and Australia […]

In a big move last week during the “Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems” case, the highest court in Europe  struck down the Privacy Shield framework that thousands of companies rely on when it comes to large scale data transfers between the US and Europe. Now that Privacy Shield has gone away, what will happen? […]

According to the Wall Street Journal, France’s antitrust regulator has imposed a 150 million euro fine ($166.2 million) for arbitrarily suspending ads. Google says that the ads in question where “deceptive.” The French antitrust authority, who is claiming “the power of life or death” over companies, has characterized the suspensions as “brutal and unjustified” and “random […]

It isn’t surprising that Google is facing even more antitrust scrutiny in Europe, this time on two different fronts. According to Reuters =, Google is confronting an examination of its “collection and use of data.” Rivals of Google have formally complained to the European Commission that Google’s business practices, in regards to Google’s shopping comparison […]

After an extensive public debate last year, the European Parliament passed a sweeping new Copyright Directive that was very controversial. This directive was intended to both harmonize and modernize EU copyright law, as well as generate licensing revenue for authors and publishers from big internet companies like Facebook and Google. The first country in the […]