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FairSearch supports a healthy Internet future, where greater consumer choice and economic growth are driven by competition, transparency and innovation.

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

It’s @ThierryBreton “EC ongoing monitoring of the effectiveness of the remedies implemented by #Google following the Google #Android Decision of 18 July 2018, the Commission will take into account the arguments put forward by market players, including the @FairSearch org”

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

3/3under Art6(1)(c) of #DMA proposal, a #gatekeeper has to allow end users to un-install any pre-installed software applications. Therefore, while there is no prohibition of default applications as such, users will remain free to choose the service that best serves their needs

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

1/3 Good comprehensive answer of @ThierryBreton to @carmenavram on #DMA “In accordance with the proposal for a Digital Markets Act (DPA), the Commission may impose on a gatekeeper any behavioral or structural corrective action if it has systematically breached the obligations...

[OpenInternetProject @OpenInternetPro]

.@OpenInternetPro recalls that Google remains the only beneficiary of the Shopping Units, causing irreparable harm to competition and consumers all across Europe! @vestager @EU_Competition

📣Here's our PR: https://t.co/zW2of7tvHA

[Foundem @Foundem]

Regrettably, Mr Laitenberger’s suggestion that the effects of the Google “remedy” have been “positive” is (to borrow from the Google lexicon) “wrong on the facts, the law, and the economics”.
#WatchThisSpace

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

19 firms and associations ask #Vestager to reject Google's remedies
as non-compliant with #Commission 2017 decision condemning it for abuse of
dominance. See letter at https://t.co/f52u90sgeE or https://t.co/7rbgp2hy5q

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

Open letter from @Foundem to Commissioner @vestager & cabinet members @EU_Competition @yizhouren @RCardosoEU “ #Google remedies fail to comply with decision” Letter is online both on the https://t.co/7IYrAJpO6W and @FairSearch website #transparency @ramontremosa @Andreas_Schwab

[Robert Maier @RobbiMaier]

@nicholashirst_ The headline is misleading as @vestager and her team did a good job on the prohibition decision, much better than @AlmuniaJoaquin. The problem is Google and the way they are trying to address @vestager decision. The Remedy is not working!!! https://t.co/ibNJmaC3tJ

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

The @EP_Economics just adopted with large majority @ramontremosa Annual report on #Competition and 2 compromise amendments on #Google #Antitrust cases: an invitation to the CEO to come exchange with MEPs & unbundling is back on the table @vestager @EU_Competition @Andreas_Schwab

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google #Android knows where you were last summer. In German https://t.co/9tCEjhPMyu, in English https://t.co/usLnlYw8j1

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google #coverttracking works on all Android devices, and even with no SIM card. https://t.co/usLnlYw8j1

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google #coverttracking could be “troubling” for law-enforcement or domestic abuse victims, says report https://t.co/usLnlYNJaz

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

Electronic Frontier Foundation says #Google #coverttracking of Android devices in some situations potentially “puts a person at risk” https://t.co/usLnlYNJaz

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google privacy policy doesn’t cover its #coverttracking on all Android devices when location services are turned off https://t.co/usLnlYNJaz

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google excuse for #coverttracking of Android users was fuzzy, when questioned by a reporter https://t.co/usLnlYw8j1

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Google claims #coverttracking info of Android devices was “immediately discarded” https://t.co/usLnlYw8j1

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

#Privacy? Actively turn off your #Android tracking, no sim & #Google still tracks you secretly https://t.co/usLnlYw8j1

[Foundem @Foundem]

The #Google Search (Comparison Shopping) Case:
Why Google’s pay-for-placement auction falls far short of the EC’s stipulated equal-treatment standard.
And an outline of Google’s options moving forward.
#antitrust https://t.co/GVOJ8TwnfP

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

Consumers who look at Google ads don't get the best results, just those from advertisers willing to pay the most. See #fairsearch.org

[FairSearch @FairSearch]

If Google has consumers in mind, why did consumer group BEUC file its first-ever antitrust complaint against it? See #fairsearch.0rg