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Challenge to data transfer tool used by Facebook will go to Europe’s top court

Facebook has bought itself a little more time over a major legal challenge in Europe after the Irish High Court decided not to strike down a b2b mechanism it uses to transfer user data to the U.S. for

Google files to appeal $2.73BN EU antitrust fine

Google has filed a legal appeal against a record-breaking fine handed down by the European Commission this summer for anti-competitive behavior relating to the operation of its product search comparis

Intel antitrust decision sent for review by Europe’s top court

A 2009 European Union antitrust decision that hit Intel with an at-the-time record fined for -- as the Commission saw it -- abusing its No.1 position in the market for computer chips has been dealt a

Europe’s top court leaning towards dealing Uber a big regulatory blow

Europe's top court appears to be leaning towards calling a spade a spade by judging Uber's business a transportation company, rather than just an enabling tech platform as the company prefers to think

Google’s Schmidt Stands Firm On Not Applying Europe’s Search De-Listing To Google.Com

Google's Eric Schmidt has held the line against extending European search de-listing requests to Google's .com domain. As it stands successful requests made by private individuals under the ruling for

Microsoft Next To Comply With Europe’s Search Privacy Ruling

Microsoft has followed Google's lead and launched an online webform where European users of its Bing search engine (all few of them) can make a request for information displayed in search results trig

UK Emergency Surveillance Law Criticized For Being Overly Broad, Vague And Draconian

Late last week it emerged that the UK government intended to railroad emergency surveillance legislation through Parliament just before the summer recess -- meaning members of parliament would not be

Jimmy Wales Blasts Europe’s “Right To Be Forgotten” Ruling As A “Terrible Danger”

Court of Justice that requires Google to consider information removal requests from individuals whose data its search engine has indexed. In comments emailed to TechCrunch, Wales described the ruli