On Monday the Preiskel and CEG teams were delighted to host a seminar discussing various concerns and potential changes regarding competition and regulatory policy. The first panel focused on regulation and oligopoly in telecoms markets. Debate included whether oligopoly led ipso facto to bad consumer outcomes or whether there is scope for oligopoly to lead…
ICOMP has called for the publication of Google’s remedy proposals to the European Commission, along with the Commission’s Decision in the Google Shopping investigation. The Commission announced its finding on 27 June 2017, outlining that it had found Google to have abused its dominance with regards to its Google Shopping product. As well as being…
In discussing how Android users in Russia are now being asked what default search engine they would like in Chrome Mobile, a remedy agreed between Google and Russia’s FAS following an antitrust probe in the country, Politico quoted Tim Cowen‘s blog post on Google remedies: “It may be that the FAS points the way both…
In April, the FAS and Google ended their two-year long dispute over Google’s pre-installation and self promotion of only its own products on all Android devices sold in Russia. Google eventually agreed to pay fines and adopted a non-discrimination remedy. The Android case is pending before the EU. The press releases and media communication from the FAS in…
ITSPA has today launched its new Data Retention Guidance document, produced in collaboration with Preiskel & Co LLP. The document is available to ITSPA members; the link can be found here.
Anyone seeking advice on Data Retention, or the GDPR more generally, should contact Danny Preiskel or Jose Saras.
Preiskel’s Tim Cowen has been quoted by PaRR, in an article[1] published yesterday, discussing the Google case. The Commission announced its decision on Google shopping on 27 June 2017. However, the question on many people’s minds is when the general public – and those considering follow-on damages claims – will be able to see a…
Preiskel’s Stephen Dnes shares some thoughts on the Google case. In professional sport, it would be unusual to take seven to ten years to warm up for an event. The accurate word for that activity would perhaps be “spectator”: a champion in the same sense that a viewer of televised golf might be the next…
Following a seven-year investigation into Google’s Shopping service, the European Commission has today announced a €2.42 billion fine against Google. The Commission has found that Google breached EU antitrust rules by using its market dominance as a search engine to give its Shopping service an illegal advantage. The Commission has ordered that Google end this practice…
Preiskel & Co Senior Partner, Danny Preiskel has contributed to the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) blog “Industry Views: GDPR, are we ready?” Danny outlines his views on how businesses should be preparing for the implementation of GDPR in May 2018. Please click here to read the blog post in full. Danny was recently elected to the…
The Times[1] reports that price comparison websites across Europe are gearing up to take follow-on damages actions against Google. This is in light of the expectation that the EU, following a seven-year investigation, will issue a decision in the cases it has been investigating, and potentially a considerable fine on the multinational. The newspaper…
