EU takes on amazon for monopoly abuse

The EU has, in a preliminary report, accused amazon of using data of third party retailers on the platform to position its own products.

The EU is also opening an investigation on amazon promoting its own products and those of parties using its services over other third parties on the amazon platform.

European Comission recommends against using Microsoft software for privacy reasons

EDPS (the European Data Protection Supervisor) warns member states against using Microsoft software, because privacy of data is not guaranteed. In this EDPS is following an earlier recommendation by the dutch government.