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Visa Wants to Buy Plaid, and With It, Transaction Data for Millions of People
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/visa-wants-buy-plaid-and-it-transaction-data-millions-people

Visa, the credit card network, is trying to buy financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. The merger is bad for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it would allow a giant company with a controlling market share and a history of anticompetitive practices to snap up its fast-growing competition in the market for payment apps. But Plaid is more than a potential disruptor, it’s also sitting on a massive amount of financial data acquired through questionable means. By buying (...)

#MasterCard #Visa #DoJ #domination #BigData #DataBrokers #finance #banque #EFF #Plaid

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Your Objections to the Google-Fitbit Merger
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-objections-google-fitbit-merger

When Google announced its intention to buy Fitbit in April, we had deep concerns. Google, a notoriously data-hungry company with a track record of reneging on its privacy policies, was about to buy one of the most successful wearables company in the world —after Google had repeatedly tried to launch a competing product, only to fail, over and over. Fitbit users give their devices extraordinary access to their sensitive personal details, from their menstrual cycles to their alcohol (...)

#Fitbit #Google #bracelet #géolocalisation #domination #BigData #santé #sport #EFF #Android #smartphone (...)

##santé ##iOS

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Stopping the Google-Fitbit Merger : Your Stories Needed !
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/stopping-google-fitbit-merger-your-stories-needed

There’s a dirty secret in the incredible growth of Silicon Valley’s tech giants : it’s a cheat. Historically, US antitrust regulators would be deeply concerned about mergers with major competitors in concentrated markets ("mergers to monopoly") and acquisitions of small companies to neutralize future competitive threats ("catch and kill"). And while often permitted, vertical integration ("platform monopolies" where the company that owns a key service competes with its own customers) would at (...)

#Apple #Fitbit #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #bracelet #domination #BigData #GAFAM #santé (...)

##santé ##EFF

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