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Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook will likely emerge from the coronavirus pandemic even stronger, House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee chair David Cicilline says while opening an unprecedented hearing featuring the CEOs of the four giants. SOUNDBITE
FBI General Counsel James Baker talked about cybersecurity, encryption and privacy at the SXSW 2017 Festival in Austin, Texas, Monday. The talk comes in the wake of revelations by Wikileaks on the CIA's ability to spy on any device connected to the internet, information contained in a trove of documents released by Wikileaks last week called Vault 7.
The EU's landmark curbs on how tech titans do business online kicks in from March 7th. "As of midnight, the gatekeepers are required to prove that they are complying with the DMA (Digital Markets Act)", says Johannes Bahrke, EU spokesperson. Brussels is determined to create a more competitive online field that allows smaller players to flourish by ushering in a list of do's and don'ts for six so-called "gatekeepers" designated by the EU: Apple, Amazon, Google owner Alphabet, TikTok parent ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft. SOUNDBITE
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, arrives at a court in Washington, DC, where a landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine begins. IMAGES
The United States is suing Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, announces Attorney General Merrick Garland from the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," he tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewers oil firms for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. SOUNDBITE
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