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Comment: Big Tech regulation risks upheaval after EU court opinion on citing GDPR in antitrust probes

By Matthew Newman
  • 20 Sep 2022 16:48
  • 20 Sep 2022 17:34
Meta, Google and other Big Tech companies could face increased scrutiny of their data-collection practices if the EU’s highest court follows a legal opinion that antitrust watchdogs can “take account” of privacy violations in competition cases.
The opinion, if confirmed by judges, could represent a watershed in how competition enforcers

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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