Take your nasty 'amburger eating cookies out of our sight

France's privacy watchdog has decided not to surrender to the software king of the world Microsoft and fined the outfit €60 million for dropping advertising cookies in users' computers without their explicit consent in violation of data protection laws in the European Union.

Will give manufacturers three and a half years to stop messing us all about 

The EU has reached a provisional agreement that will require that portable devices have user-replaceable batteries.

Draft document being looked at 

The EU and US are closer to getting a workable data protection privacy framework which enables European companies to use US clouds without being spied on by US spooks.

EU report has a problem with what it thinks is risky and criminal

An EU report has been tutting that the “kids of today” have become immune to the fact that trolling and online piracy is considered normal – unlike the early generation of internet users who were apparently paragons of virtue.

Unhappy about its connections with Office 365 

While you might think that there is a lot of competition for online communication tools, it seems that the EU regulators are really worried about Microsoft teams.

Fans of Microsoft, Activision, and Call of Duty agree that commission is clueless 

A united front of fans of Microsoft, Activision, and Call of Duty have taken to Twitter to complain that the  EU commission is biased in favour of Sony over its investigation into the Volish buy-out of Activision.

Moving to phase II of monopoly investigation

The European Commission has announced that, following its initial investigation into Microsoft's proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it will now be opening a more "in-depth" Phase 2 probe to determine the deal's likely impact on competition.

Another fine, but leopard remains spotty 

Google could face EU antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, putting the company at risk of its fourth fine in the EU of more than a billion euros.

Robots expected to demand an oven ready exit plan

The European Commission is preparing to make sure that people who suffer from damage due to AI stuff ups will be more likely to win in court.

Worried that the EU might rain on its cloud

Microsoft said that it would fix its unfair licensing terms in the EU before it is taken to task for making it prohibitively expensive to run Windows and Office workloads on non-Azure cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud.