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Meta hit with antitrust breach order in Turkey for combining user data across Fb, WhatsApp, Instagram • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 26, 2022Posted in competition regulation, Facebook, Instagram, meta, Privacy, privacy regulation, WhatsAppNo Comments

Meta won’t be quaking at the size of the penalty it’s just been handed by Turkey’s competition authority, which announced a 346.72 million lira sanction today. The circa $18.6M fine pales in comparison to a number of recent stings hitting it from European regulators. Such as the $267M fine for WhatsApp in the European Union […]

Online travel giant Booking.com faces antitrust probe in Spain • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 17, 2022Posted in Booking.com, competition regulation, Digital Markets Act, Government & PolicyNo Comments

More tech antitrust activity: Spain’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following a couple of complaints lodged by the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers and the Regional Hotel Association of Madrid. The national competition regulator said today that it will look into whether […]