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Consumer Confusion over FCC’s Arbitrary Privacy Policymaking
by Scott Cleland February 18, 2016Let me try to explain to a consumer what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily has done, and apparently intends to do, for consumer internet privacy protection going forward.
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Why Google Can’t Criticize EU Much for Ruling it Dominant & Anticompetitive
by Scott Cleland February 8, 2016In the next several weeks, expect the EC’s Competition Directorate to decide that Google is in fact dominant with >90% share of Internet search in Europe and that Google has abused its search dominance by biasing its own Shopping service over competitors. It also could formally charge Google for abuse of its search dominance in contractually tying Google Search and other search-driven apps like Maps, YouTube, etc. to Android to extend its search dominance to mobile search and to the operating system market where Android now owns >80% share.
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