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It kicks off a legal battle over the measure, which is set to take effect July 1.

Provided by Dow Jones By Sam Schechner Facebook Inc. and other tech giants are awaiting an Irish ruling that could help determine whether, and how quickly, they have to suspend the flow of data about European Union residents to computer servers in the U.S. In the balance is billions of dollars of business in the cloud-computing, social-media and advertising industries. Ireland's High Court is expected to rule Friday on Facebook's bid to derail a preliminary decision on data flows that it received in August from Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lea...

Google's parent company Alphabet says it will no longer invest in advertising technology that tracks people across the internet.

La Nouvelle Tribune By    The U.K. is investigating Apple Inc.’s AAPL +0.39% treatment of app developers that offer their wares on the company’s App Store, adding a new front to antitrust complaints against the iPhone maker. The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether Apple imposes unfair or anticompetitive conditions on app developers, including requirements that some types of apps use Apple’s in-app payment system, from which Apple can take commissions of up to ...

By Sam Schechner The U.K. is investigating Apple Inc.'s treatment of app developers that offer their wares on the company's App Store, adding a new front to antitrust complaints against the iPhone maker. The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.'s antitrust regulator, said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether Apple imposes unfair or anticompetitive conditions on app developers, including requirements that some types of apps use Apple's in-app payment system, from which Apple can take commissions of up to 30%. The authority said it opened the invest...