Home » today » Technology » Breaking up for antitrust authorities “last resort” Breaking up for antitrust authorities “last resort” March 18, 2021 by world today news Andreas Mundt The President of the Federal Cartel Office takes on the US tech giants. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Berlin The President of the Federal Cartel Office, Andreas Mundt, announces new investigations against the large digital companies. “I think we are after Facebook further proceedings will be opened in the near future, ”he told the Handelsblatt. Mundt wants to use the new instruments that his authority has received through the recent reform of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). The competition watchdogs can impose or prohibit certain types of behavior on so-called companies that are of paramount cross-market importance for competition. Controversial practices include preinstalling their own offers on devices such as smartphones or making it more difficult for users to take their own data to other providers. In order to better examine the practices of digital companies, Mundt also wants to look into their often strictly guarded business secrets: “As competition authorities, we will have to look more and more into the algorithms in the future.” This is the only way to understand whether Facebook, for example, is observing the ban To bring together user data from the various own offers and third-party websites. Read on now Get access to this and every other article in the Web and in our app for 4 weeks free of charge. – Continue – – Read on now Get access to this and every other article in the Web and in our app for 4 weeks free of charge. – Continue – – — . Related posts:Kirby and the Forgotten Land tesztPorsche 911 Turbo S Surprisingly Defeats Koenigsegg Agera RS in Straight-Line AccelerationFinal Fantasy 16: A Jaw-Dropping Epic That Deserves Discussion and Your VoteBrawl: Golden Knights fan uses her prosthetic leg to strike in the heapShare this:FacebookX Related New life for the convent of San Antonio in Baeza 389 new corona cases in Hamburg | NDR.de – Nachrichten – Hamburg Leave a Comment Cancel replyCommentName Email Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Search for: