One of Huawei’s biggest trade war headaches has just got worse, as an unofficial workaround to the Trump administration ban on using Google apps and services has been quashed.
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Google has won a European Union court battle against plans to impose a global “right to be forgotten” in the latest landmark ruling over where to draw the line between privacy and freedom of speech.
Google blocked a privacy push at the main organisation that decides how the World Wide Web works, according to a recent vote that isolated the Internet giant from others involved in the process.
Google is bracing for another landmark privacy decision at the European Union’s top court, five years after a “right-to-be-forgotten” ruling forced it to delete links to personal information on request.
The impact of the Trump administration’s blacklisting of Huawei was laid bare on Thursday as the Chinese company unveiled a flagship Android-powered smartphone that lacks any licensed Google apps.
Huawei is all set to unveil its latest flagship smartphones later on Thursday. They are likely to be the first not carrying core Google apps amid an ongoing trade dispute with the US government.
Bill Gates, who knows a thing or two about antitrust investigations, doesn’t think it’s a good idea to break up the biggest US technology companies as some politicians have suggested.
The European Union’s antitrust chief called for more rules to rein in how companies collect and use information, offering the first clues into how she may use new powers to target big technology firms.
Of the refreshed or new products that Apple talked about at its extravaganza this week, I’m most curious about Arcade, the $5 monthly subscription to videogames for iPhones and iPads.
Facebook and Google are facing intensifying scrutiny by US state law enforcement officers with authority to impose vast fines and even break up companies that are found to have violated antitrust and privacy rules.