Mozilla, DuckDuckGo support bill to rein Big Tech
2 years, 3 months ago

Mozilla, DuckDuckGo support bill to rein Big Tech

The Hindu  

A group of 13 companies urged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to approve a bill that would rein in giant tech companies like Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook. DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Proton and other companies that advertise themselves as pro-privacy expressed support for a bill to ban self-preferencing by Big Tech platforms like Google and Amazon.com. In a letter to Senate and House leadership, the companies said that the big tech firms have used their dominance to steer consumers away from services that offer more privacy protections. "While more and more Americans are embracing privacy-first technologies, some dominant firms still use their gatekeeper power to limit competition and restrict user choice," they wrote in the letter.

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DuckDuckGo founder says Google’s phone and manufacturing partnerships thwart competition
1 year, 3 months ago

DuckDuckGo founder says Google’s phone and manufacturing partnerships thwart competition

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Appearing in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg testified Thursday that it was hard for his small search engine company to compete with Google because the powerhouse has deals with phone companies and equipment manufacturers to make its product the default search option on so many devices. DuckDuckGo’s internal surveys, he said, …

News organisations get more power over tech platforms after U.S. Senate panel approves bill
2 years, 3 months ago

News organisations get more power over tech platforms after U.S. Senate panel approves bill

The Hindu  

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to approve a bill aimed at allowing news organisations to band together to negotiate with Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Meta's Facebook and win more revenue. The bill is aimed at giving news and broadcast organisations more clout after years of criticism that the big tech companies use their content to attract traffic and …

Online privacy bill easily passed by U.S. House panel
2 years, 6 months ago

Online privacy bill easily passed by U.S. House panel

The Hindu  

A U.S. House of Representatives panel passed a bipartisan online privacy bill on Thursday that aims to limit the collection of personal data, though doubts remain as to whether it will become law. The bill would require companies like Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook, along with a long list of others, to only collect personal data that is necessary to …

Big Tech Anti-Trust Bill Has Votes Needed to Pass, Says US Lawmaker
2 years, 6 months ago

Big Tech Anti-Trust Bill Has Votes Needed to Pass, Says US Lawmaker

News 18  

WASHINGTON: A top Democratic lawmaker on antitrust issues said Tuesday a bill aimed at reining in the market power of Big Tech platforms like Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google had the votes to pass the both chambers of Congress in the next few weeks. On the sidelines of an event to rally support for measures before the Senate and House of …

U.S. bill to rein in Big Tech backed by dozens of small and big companies
2 years, 6 months ago

U.S. bill to rein in Big Tech backed by dozens of small and big companies

The Hindu  

Dozens of companies and business organisations sent a letter to U.S. Congress members on Monday, urging them to support a bill that would rein in the biggest tech companies such as Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google. Senator Amy Klobuchar and lawmakers from both parties said they had the Senate votes needed to pass legislation that would prevent tech platforms, including Apple …

U.S. bill would stop Big Tech favouring its own products
3 years, 2 months ago

U.S. bill would stop Big Tech favouring its own products

The Hindu  

About a dozen U.S. senators from both parties on Monday formally introduced a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon and Alphabet's Google, from favoring their products and services. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley's bill would prohibit platforms from requiring companies operating on their sites to purchase the platform's goods or services and ban them from biasing …

Big Tech to face another bipartisan U.S. antitrust bill
3 years, 2 months ago

Big Tech to face another bipartisan U.S. antitrust bill

The Hindu  

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon and Alphabet's Google, from favouring their products and services. This bill, which Klobuchar's office said would be introduced early next week, would be a companion to a measure which has passed …

U.S. House lawmakers introduce bipartisan bills to target Big Tech
3 years, 6 months ago

U.S. House lawmakers introduce bipartisan bills to target Big Tech

The Hindu  

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced four bills on Friday aimed at reining in the power of the tech giants in what one congressional aide described as a revolution in antitrust. One measure bans platforms from owning subsidiaries that operate on their platform if those subsidiaries compete with other businesses - potentially forcing the Big Tech firms to …

House lawmakers introduce Big Tech bills that could break up Amazon, Google and others
3 years, 6 months ago

House lawmakers introduce Big Tech bills that could break up Amazon, Google and others

CNN  

CNN Business — Tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google could be forced to make sweeping changes to their businesses under a series of new bills introduced Friday by House lawmakers targeting the companies’ economic dominance. “In such instances the bill requires dominant platforms to divest lines of business where the platform’s gatekeeper power allows it to favor its …

Big Tech’s outsized influence draws state-level pushback
3 years, 8 months ago

Big Tech’s outsized influence draws state-level pushback

Associated Press  

New York state Sen. Michael Gianaris was ecstatic when Amazon named Long Island City in 2018 as a front-runner for its new headquarters, a project that would bring 25,000 jobs and $2.5 billion in construction spending to his district in Queens. “Traditional antitrust enforcement doesn’t work because Big Tech has become too big and too powerful.” Tech companies aren’t content …

U.S. House antitrust chairman plans multiple bills to go after Big Tech
3 years, 9 months ago

U.S. House antitrust chairman plans multiple bills to go after Big Tech

The Hindu  

Democratic Representative David Cicilline, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, is preparing to come out with 10 or more pieces of legislation targeting Big Tech companies, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday. The subcommittee, under Cicilline's leadership, released a 449-page report in October last year, which detailed abuses of market power by Apple, Amazon, …

Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power
54 years, 11 months ago

Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power

Wired  

Anyone who's paid even slight attention to the congressional investigation of the power wielded by tech giants won't be surprised by the report released Tuesday by the subcommittee’s Democrats. The report, which ends a 16-month investigation and includes a trove of internal documents, lays out the most thorough case yet that Big Tech exploits its advantages in unfair ways. As …

Five things to know about the Big Tech antitrust report
4 years, 2 months ago

Five things to know about the Big Tech antitrust report

Associated Press  

After years of calling Big Tech too big, Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to rein in Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple by breaking them up, limiting future mergers and blocking self-dealing that could hurt competitors. BYE BYE, BUY BUY BUY The report attributes the “significant and durable market power” of the companies in large part to “a high volume …

U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of Big Tech firms, lawmaker says
4 years, 2 months ago

U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of Big Tech firms, lawmaker says

The Hindu  

The U.S. House of Representatives antitrust report on Big Tech firms contains a “thinly veiled call to break up” the companies, Republican Congressman Ken Buck said in a draft response seen by Reuters. The House antitrust subcommittee is expected to publish its report this week on Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Google owner Alphabet Inc. A Buck representative …

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