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All the details on the proceedings launched against Google, Apple and Dropbox by the Antitrust Authority
Six investigations for three big names: Google, Apple and Dropbox. The Antitrust Authority has initiated two different proceedings on privacy and cloud services against each of the three technology companies.
All the details.
THE INSTRUCTORIES
The Agcm has initiated six investigations against Google (for the Google Drive service), Apple (for the iCloud service) and Dropbox. Each technological giant, writes the Authority, is concerned "by a proceeding for alleged unfair commercial practices and / or violations of the Consumer Rights Directive and by one for alleged vexatious clauses included in the contractual conditions".
GOOGLE, APPLE AND INCORRECT COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
Going into the details, the Antitrust points the finger at Google and Apple for not having given adequate communication, during the presentation of the service, of the collection and use for commercial purposes of the data provided by the user and the possible undue influence in the towards consumers.
Users, explains the Antitrust Authority, when using the cloud storage service, “would not be in a position to give the operator their consent to the collection and use of information concerning them for commercial purposes”.
DROPBOX AND THE (DENIED) RIGHT OF REFUSAL
Same accusations for Dropbox , to which, however, Agcm also accuses the fact of not having communicated, in a clear manner, the useful information on the conditions, terms and procedures for withdrawing from the contract and for exercising the right to reconsider.
Not only. Dropbox would not have allowed the user, writes the authority, "the easy use of out-of-court mechanisms for the conciliation of disputes, to which the professional is subject, with the information necessary to access them".
PROCEDURES FOR VESSATORY CLAUSES
It's still. The Antitrust Authority has also initiated proceedings for unfair clauses for certain contractual conditions set out in the relative models developed by Google, Apple and Dropbox.
Among the conditions against which AGCM points its finger are: the operator's ample right to suspend and interrupt the service; liability exemption even in the event of loss of documents stored in the user's cloud space; the possibility of unilateral modification of the contractual conditions; the prevalence of the English version of the contract text over the Italian version.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/perche-lantitrust-sfruculiera-google-apple-e-dropbox/ on Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:50:16 +0000.