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US Fight Against Chinese 5G Efforts Shifts From Threats to Incentives (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:33European Privacy Ruling Could Mean More Scrutiny of Companies (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:35House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon and Other Big Tech Companies
House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country’s biggest tech companies, including a bill that seeks to make Amazon and other large corporations effectively split in two or shed their private-label products.
China’s New Power Play: More Control of Tech Companies’ Troves of Data (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 16:53Bipartisan Group of Senators Reaches Agreement on Infrastructure Proposal
Members of a bipartisan group of senators said they had reached an agreement on an infrastructure proposal that would be fully paid for without tax increases, pitching the plan to other lawmakers and the White House as they try to craft compromise legislation on the issue. While the group of 10 senators didn’t reveal details of the plan in its statement, people familiar with the agreement said it called for $579 billion above expected future federal spending on infrastructure.
Google Proposes UK Oversight Role in Retirement of Web Cookies (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 06:22Amazon Faces Possible $425 Million EU Privacy Fine (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:49House lawmakers have drafted five draft bills to curb the market power of large platforms (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 06:29Google Should Be Treated as Utility, Ohio Attorney General Argues in New Lawsuit
Ohio’s attorney general filed a lawsuit asking a judge to rule that Google is a public utility. Ohio said that it is the first state in the country to bring a lawsuit seeking a court declaration that Google is a common carrier subject under state law to government regulation.