If Amazon is not a ‘Very Large Online Platform’, who is?
Last year, the EU adopted a landmark regulation which aims to create a safer and more accountable online environment for consumers, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA). But internet giant Amazon seems to be playing legal tricks to delay...
One year on from our complaints against Google and its fast track to surveillance
It is now one year since BEUC and ten of its members alerted about Google’s ‘Fast Track to Surveillance’ when consumers create a Google account, but little has happened since, write Maryant Fernandez Pérez and Sébastien Pant.
Why it’s time to ban surveillance ads
It’s the name of a forty-year-old hit that still holds huge popular appeal today. Every Breath You Take became The Police’s signature track, despite the creepy lyrics about a disturbingly possessive person who watches their lover’s every step. It’s also...