Datenschutz-Urteil: Google hat Griff nach Nutzerdaten unzulässig vereinfacht

 Verbraucherzentrale, hier. 

Urteil hier.

From the archives: Does this mean that Google is currently using your health data to train GenAI, possibly?

 

Competition in the Provision of Cloud Computing Services

 OECD, Background Note here. 

(Already on my syllabus).

Viral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact [indeed 😀: non-compliance with the DMA!]

The Verge, here. 

"Under the DMA, app developers distributing their apps via Apple's App Store should be able to inform customers, free of charge, of alternative offers outside the App Store, steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.

"The Commission found that Apple fails to comply with this obligation. Due to a number of restrictions imposed by Apple, app developers cannot fully benefit from the advantages of alternative distribution channels outside the App Store. Similarly, consumers cannot fully benefit from alternative and cheaper offers as Apple prevents app developers from directly informing consumers of such offers. The company has failed to demonstrate that these restrictions are objectively necessary and proportionate" 

Not covered, Apple is telling us. Non-compliance decisions not published yet. We were used to waiting for months (years?) for the publication of 101 and 102 decisions but the DMA was supposed to be much quicker and there is also the need to ensure adaptation.

Ripples in the Generative-AI Pond

Across the competition policy landscape, many are jostling for vantage over GenAI—a scramble laid bare in the ICN sessions in Edinburgh last week and, at the same moment, in the remedies phase of US v Google. In Europe, it was the German Verbraucherzentrale that dropped the first pebble, swiftly followed by NOYB, and the ripples carry particular weight in the shadow of the Court’s 2023 Meta ruling—a fact of which Meta is, needless to say, acutely aware.

[More soon in a paper].

Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search

 The Register, here.

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots

Wired, here.