Amazon Faces E.U. Inquiry Over Data From Independent Sellers
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/technology/amazon-eu.html
Amazon faces a widening inquiry in Europe over whether it unfairly uses data collected from third-party sellers who rely on its platform, the latest move by regulators around the world to curb the growing power of big technology companies. The European Union’s top antitrust regulator said on Wednesday that it had opened a formal antitrust investigation into whether Amazon was using the third-party data to promote its own products at the expense of other retailers. A day earlier, (...)