Vestager gestures while speaking during an interview in her office in Brussels, Belgium. The European Union’s review of Google’s plan to buy Fitbit Inc won’t involve privacy regulators, the bloc’s antitrust chief insisted, days after data watchdogs warned about how tech giants could use M&A to access citizens’ private information. — Bloomberg
The European Union’s review of Google’s plan to buy Fitbit Inc won’t involve privacy regulators, the bloc’s antitrust chief insisted, days after data watchdogs warned about how tech giants could use M&A to access citizens’ private information.
A panel of EU data regulators raised the alarm last week, saying that the US$2.1bil (RM8.90bil) takeover of fitness tracker Fitbit could "entail a high risk to privacy and data protection” in an unusual statement.
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