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• The Competition and Markets Authority said it opened a formal investigation into whether the two companies broke U.K. consumer law by failing to protect shoppers.

• Our worry is that millions of online shoppers could be misled by reading fake reviews and then spending their money based on those recommendations

• U.K. regulators said on Friday that they’re investigating Google and Amazon over concerns the online giants aren’t doing enough to stop fake reviews of products and services on their platforms.

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• 否认 — Google

  we are confident that our smart TV licensing practices are in compliance with all applicable competition laws

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• The latter contravenes Section 4(2)(e) of the Act and all these aspects warrant a detailed investigation, CCI said in the order dated June 22.

• The Competition Commission has ordered a detailed probe against Google for alleged unfair business practices in the smart television operating systems market in India

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• A federal appeals court Monday rejected a lawsuit alleging that Twitter, Google and Facebook should be held liable in the 2016 massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub after Islamic State social-media posts radicalized shooter Omar Mateen.

• A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed by victims and estates of victims in the shooting that killed 49 people and wounded dozens of others at the LGBT club.

• The ruling focused heavily on whether the plaintiffs had proven that Twitter, Google-owned YouTube and Facebook “aided and abetted” Mateen in violation of a federal law known as the Anti-Terrorism Act. The court’s 31-page ruling said the plaintiffs did not show that the attack was an act of international terrorism as defined under the law.

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• Former wearable tech start-up Jawbone has filed two patent infringement suits against Google and Apple, claiming it is entitled to royalties for its noise-cancelling technology.

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• The proceedings in the United States it is seeking damages for lost profits and future profits, pre and post judgment interest, and legal costs.

• Mobile advertising startup Unlockd has filed legal proceedings in the United States against Google claiming it collapsed because of the tech giant’s anti-competitive behaviour.

• Unlockd has filed for damages against US tech and media giant Google in the United States, claiming it deliberately scuttled its business just before an initial public offering by banning its apps from its online platforms.

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• Ivan Zhdanov, a Navalny ally based abroad, said today the removal amounted to political censorship

• Apple and Google have come under fire for political meddling after they both removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores under pressure from the Kremlin.

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• Under the ruling, Google is banned from forcing device makers to sign AFA contracts, allowing manufacturers to adopt modified versions of Android OS on their devices.

• abuse of its dominant market position that restricted competition in the mobile OS market.

• South Korea’s competition watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has taken issue with the tech giant’s use of anti-fragmentation agreements that have prevented hardware partners from making changes to its operating system. It ruled that Google will be prohibited from forcing manufacturers to sign these in the future, and that existing agreements must be modified.

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• According to a Western District of Washington complaint filed on Monday, Robinson Communications Inc. is taking two tech giants for conduct it argues crippled the country’s newspaper industry.

• The filing both accuses Google LLC of exercising monopoly power of the digital advertising market and both Google and Facebook Inc. of unlawfully conspiring to engage in anticompetitive conduct per the so-called “Jedi Blue” agreement, constituting an automatic violation of the Sherman Act.

• The publisher claims the social media giants have violated federal antitrust and monopoly laws to an extent that "threatens the extinction of local newspapers across the country."

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• 谷歌正面临一项新的欧盟反垄断调查，称谷歌“可能迫使”智能手机制造商使用 Google Assistant 作为其设备上的默认语音助手。

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• 否认 — Google

  Sebastien Missoffe, the head of Google France stated that the company disagrees with several legal components and believes the fine is excessive in comparison to its attempts to achieve an agreement and comply with the new law.

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• The Competition Authority said that Google's appeal would not prevent the tech behemoth from paying the penalties.

• Google is appealing against €500 million penalty levied by France's antitrust agency for failing to follow its instructions on how to conduct negotiations with media publishers.

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• A Moscow court fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google 3 million roubles ($40,400) on Monday for not deleting content that it deemed illegal

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• 澄清 — Google

  Google said in a blog that is was "determined to ensure that the Privacy Sandbox is developed in a way that works for the entire ecosystem".

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• The CMA said it would consult on the new commitments until on 17 December.

• Google said in a blog that is was "determined to ensure that the Privacy Sandbox is developed in a way that works for the entire ecosystem".

• Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from its Chrome browser to address concerns raised by Britain's competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.

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• 否认 — Google

  In a statement to The Verge, Google said it disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal.

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• Google and Apple have both disagreed with the authority's decision and plan to appeal against it.

• Italy's antitrust regulator has slapped a fine of €10 million (about $11.2 million) each on Google and Apple.

• The authority claims the two companies don't provide "clear and immediate information" on how they collect and use data from their users.

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• The research alleged that app store owners Google and Apple did not do enough to prevent underage users from downloading age-inappropriate apps from their stores.

• The Information Commissioner’s Office aims to investigate their interactions with children, including location tracking, personalizing content or advertising, and serving up behavioral nudges, like automatically playing videos endangering children online and breaching UK’s Children Code.

• The UK’s data protection regulator contacted 40 companies in the areas of social media, gaming, video, music streaming, including Apple Inc. and Google, Financial Times reports.

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• 持续披露 — Google

  Google said it would review the judgment and that it has already complied with the Commission's order to ensure a level playing field for rivals.

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• The court backed the EU fine, citing the serious nature of the infringement and the fact that "the conduct in question was adopted intentionally, not negligently".

• Google lost an appeal to a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) European antitrust decision on Wednesday

• The General Court largely dismisses Google's action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service over competing comparison shopping services,

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• 莫斯科一地方法院8日对谷歌处以罚款200万卢布(1美元约合71卢布)，理由是其拒绝删除违禁信息。

• 报道称，莫斯科塔甘斯基区地方法院的新闻机构24日发布声明称，该法院一名法官裁定谷歌存在行政违法行为，对其“处以72亿卢布（约6.24亿人民币）的行政罚款”。

• 莫斯科一家法院因谷歌屡次未能在网上删除被禁内容而对其处以72亿卢布（约6.24亿人民币）的罚款。

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• On Friday, the Tagansky District Court ruled that Google is ordered to pay about 7.2 million roubles ($98.4 million roughly), while Meta is to pay 2 million roubles ($27 million) for repeatedly failing to comply with the directives of Russian legislation on content.

• A Moscow court also slapped a $27 million fine on Meta (formerly Facebook) over its failure to delete content banned by the law of the land.

• Google told The Verge in a statement it will "study the court documents when they are available and then decide on next steps".

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• Google has sued hackers believed to be part of a cybercrime gang that has stolen user information from around the world.

• The lawsuit accuses Mr Starovikov, Mr Filippov and the 15 unnamed defendants of computer fraud and abuse, trademark infringement and several other charges.

• According to a lawsuit filed in New York and unsealed on Tuesday, the botnet built by Dmitry Starovikov, Alexander Filippov and their associates has become a "modern technological and borderless incarnation of organised crime".

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• The court official added that on considering the second protocol, the company was fined another 1.5 million rubles ($20,405).

• "Google was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. The company was sentenced to an administrative fine of four million rubles under the first protocol and 1.5 million rubles under the second similar protocol," the court’s official said.

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• A magistrate judge on Thursday fined U.S. company Google 3 million rubles (over $40,000) for refusal to locate personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Tagansky District Court’s press service told RAPSI.

• Moscow's Tagansky district court on Thursday found Google guilty of breaching data localisation laws and fined the company 3 million rubles ($41,000), a court spokeswoman told state news agency RIA Novosti.

• A magistrate judge on Wednesday fined Google LLC 6.5 million rubles ($90,000) for two cases of violating the order of the restriction of access to information