The antitrust watchdog recommended:
- The world’s first dedicated office inside the anti-trust regulator for policing the tech giants’ market power.
- Tasking the office with investigating the digital ad market
- Overhauling privacy laws so people know and can delete what’s being stored
- Establishing codes of conduct for online giants dealing with media companies and handling complaints about online misinformation
- Strengthening the ability of copyright owners to remove their content from Google and Facebook
- Forcing Google to offer alternatives to its searches and browser on Android devices
- Changing merger laws to include data and technology implications, and strengthen anti-competitive rules
Regulators around the world are trying to rein in Facebook and Google. Other recent instances include:
* A report for Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer calling for a digital markets regulator which would produce a code of competitive conduct
*A European Commission report saying a new regulatory regime may be needed to apply antitrust rules to digital companies
*The U.S. Federal Trade Commission starting a task force to monitor technology markets, and beginning an investigation into Facebook
Via: Reuters
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