The EU notifies Apple of “potentially prohibited geo-blocking practices” on the App Store and other apps, and says it must align with EU anti-geo-blocking rules
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Sources: the FTC plans to file a complaint against Amazon alleging Alexa speakers violate COPPA by collecting data about kids under 13 without parental consent
Josh Sisco / Politico :
Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA
Josh Sisco / Politico :
The EU unveils the Data Act, setting rules on how companies and individuals can access anonymized data; AWS and Azure would be forced to make switching easier
The European Union unveiled new rules that will make it easier for users to transfer data generated from products like Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa or a Tesla Inc. vehicle.
EU antitrust regulators launch sectorial inquiry into IoT, including interoperability of devices and how smart assistants like Siri or Alexa use collected data
and now sweeping regulation is on the table. Preambles saying “I am not a human” is considered. https://twitter.com/... Dan Stoller / @realdanstoller : New: Voice assistants and the so-called internet...
400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules
and a big one is in India Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Amazon and Flipkart pull 100,000s of products to comply with new Indian law John Adams / PaymentsSource : How politics are carving up the global pa...
As part of its deal with Apple, Amazon will only allow authorized resellers on its site, kicking independent Apple device refurbishers off its platform
Except for the One It Wants to Beat Eric Abent / SlashGear : Apple devices are about to invade Amazon Eli Blumenthal / USA Today : Apple, Amazon make peace before the holidays as latest iPhones, iPads...