Once again, the game is about access to user data, not software or operating systems. But the EU and data protection authorities are missing in action by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian on Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Forcing the sale of Chrome and Android does not solve Google’s monopoly problem”
What does Google’s abandonment of gTLDs mean for net neutrality?
The American giant’s decision to use only the .com domain reopens the debate on jurisdiction, governance and net neutrality. An analysis of the technical and geopolitical implications that foreshadow a future of digital borders, selective blocking and new spheres of influence by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian on Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “What does Google’s abandonment of gTLDs mean for net neutrality?”
US tariffs and Big Tech: no point crying over spilt digital milk
Instead of applying the biblical ‘eye for an eye’ approach, a more effective response to US tariffs would be to open up new markets and, above all, free ourselves from our technological dependence on Big Tech by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech
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Italy asks Meta, X and LinkedIn to pay VAT. Will there be retaliation from Trump?
Reuters once again raises the issue of data monetisation, but above all that of web tax and the consequent risk (now more concrete than ever) of US retaliation. How realistic is this scenario? A hypothesis by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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Allegations against Pavel Durov call into question Big Tech’s stay in Europe
The publication of a press release by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office on the arrest of Pavel Durov allowsus to delve a little more (but not too much) into the context of the affair because it contains the list of charges brought against the founder of Telegram.
To summarise, the legal bases for Pavel Durov’s arrest are the offences set out in the LOI n° 2023-22 du 24 janvier 2023 d’orientation et de programmation du ministère de l’intérieur, which inserts Article 323- 3-2 and an additional paragraph (the twelfth) to Article 706-73-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and by the Loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique that subjects the use of cryptography for uses other than authentication and integrity checks to ministerial authorisation (in practice if it serves to prove one’s identity in an e-commerce service, encryption is freely usable, if it serves to encrypt information it must be authorised by the government) by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Strategikon – Italian Tech La Repubblica Continue reading “Allegations against Pavel Durov call into question Big Tech’s stay in Europe”