
EU gets right to repair laws
Does not apply to DIY or electronics
Household appliances will become easier to repair thanks to new standards being adopted across the European Union.

Coppers target illegal video streaming
Raids across the EU
Police forces across Europe are carrying out raids against illegal video streaming service platforms, the Italian postal police have announced.

Apple takes on the EU
We pay enough tax thanks
Apple fights the world's most significant tax case this week in a desperate bid to avoid paying tax in the EU and show its regulators who are boss.

European Union snubs VW's wireless standard
Wants 5G instead
European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet-connected cars after rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed by Volkswagen.

EU panel calls for ban of AI for mass surveillance
Ethical AI
A group of policy experts assembled by the EU has recommended that it ban the use of AI for mass surveillance and mass “scoring of individuals”.

EU investigates Apple for antitrust antics
Again
Fruity cargo cult Apple is finding itself on the wrong end of another antitrust action over the way it is running its music streaming business.

Apple faces another antitrust case in the EU
Van der Valk investigates
Dutch regulators said that they had opened an investigation into whether Apple has abused its market position by giving preferential treatment to its own apps.

EU data supervisor probes Microsoft software deals
Are EU institutions following data privacy rules?
EU data protection authorities are rather concerned about deals being hatched out between Microsoft, the European Commission and other EU institutions.

Google fined $1.7 billion for search ad blocks
Adsense costs Google 1.49 billion euro
Google has been fined 1.49 billion euro by the European Commission which said that the case focused on the company’s illegal practices in search advertising brokering from 2006 to 2016.

Advertising companies snooping on EU websites
Taking the Michael
Advertising companies have infested EU government websites with advertising scripts to steal the data.