Austrian privacy campaigner complains

Technology firms' compliance with European restrictions on transatlantic data transfers is shockingly poor, according to Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems.

Anti-trust investigations for everyone

The US Justice Department is moving “full-tilt” on its antitrust investigation of Google and other Big Tech platforms.

After US walked out on talks threatening sanctions against the rest of the world

France has said a US decision to quit global talks on how to tax big digital firms such as Google, Amazon and Facebook was a “provocation” and the European Union said it could impose taxes even if no deal was reached by year-end.

Working them into the fine print of trade agreements

Foreign watchdogs will have to allow US Big Tech to shaft their consumers under the terms of doing business with the US.

The US suddenly realises that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are not that nice

State attorneys in more than a dozen states are preparing to begin an antitrust investigation of the tech giants.

Calls on the US government for protection

After refusing to pay tax in Europe for ages, Big Tech is so upset by the French demanding a piddling three percent on profits that it is asking for the US government to help.

May undo part mergers

The US. Federal Trade Commission is prepared to break up major technology companies if necessary by undoing past mergers.

Taxman is going to get you

G7 finance ministers are looking to tax big digital firms in their sights when they meet on Wednesday outside Paris despite divisions about how best to do it.

Hands off our hardware

Dell, HP, Microsoft and Intel have issued a statement saying that they were opposed to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to include laptop computers and tablets among the Chinese goods targeted for tariffs.

Don’t even talk to them any more

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have told their employees to stop talking about technology and technical standards with counterparts at Huawei.