The Big Tech lobby has lost. Today the European Parliament voted on the Digital Services Act (DSA), the law that will make digital traffic safer. An overwhelming majority of the parliamentarians agreed with the law and with that also with the proposals of PvdA Member of Parliament Paul Tang: “I am very pleased with the…
Today, a large majority of the European Parliament voted in favour of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) compromise texts. This law will limit the market power of the largest Big Tech companies. MEP Paul Tang (S&D), who was one of the negotiators: “We are probably witnessing the largest lobbying operation Brussels has ever seen. And…
Today we took an important hurdle towards European legislation to tackle Big Tech’s market dominance. Facebook is more nervous than ever. Today, a large majority of the Internal Market Committee in the European Parliament voted in favour of tightening up the Digital Markets Act – the so-called DMA. By doing so we took the final…
The European Court of Justice ruled this morning in the case brought by Google against the 2.42 billion euros fine imposed on the tech company by the European Commission. The Commission fined Google for abuse of market power. The ruling of the highest European court proves that competition law is not dead and at the…
The Economic Affairs Committee in the European Parliament today approved proposals to curb the power of the very largest tech companies. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposes strict obligations and bans on Facebook, Google and the Dutch company Booking. The European Parliament wants to put an end to manipulation by big tech, as seen in…
Our physical world is opening again slowly. But what about our digital world? During the pandemic, we learned how to work and live remotely. Physical contacts distanced, steered by innovative companies, international organisations, and our governments. What did we learn about our dependence on these digital superpowers; and has this changed after the pandemic? With…
Broad support for strictly regulating tracking ads A unique cooperation of Members of European Parliament from liberals to the left side joined forces in amending the Digital Services Act (DSA) to put an end to pervasive tracking advertising. This proposal hurts tech giants Google, Facebook and Amazon who make billions of Euros every year by…
The Socialists and Democrats Group is today launching AdsZuck, a pan-European campaign aimed at ending the abuse of citizens’ personal data by Big Tech companies. Paul Tang MEP, initiator of the AdsZuck campaign, said: “We want big tech companies to understand that our private data is not a product! For far too long these companies…
Paul Tang elected as chairperson of the new subcommittee on tax matters Paul Tang was elected by acclamation on Wednesday to be the Chairperson of Parliament’s newly created subcommittee on tax matters (FISC). Mr Tang (S&D, NL) was elected at the opening of the subcommittee’s constitutive meeting on Wednesday morning. After his election, Mr. Tang…
“Try turning it off and back on again” – How many times have we recommended this to fix our computers? With the Covid-19 outbreak, our economy was suddenly and dramatically turned off. The virus is taking thousands of lives and jobs, and is forcing us to live in isolation. Now it is time to restart!…