Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: DOJ officials have met with Google’s competitors and customers for an antitrust lawsuit over Google Maps and location data that could be filed in 2023  —  A lawsuit would be an unprecedented third case against a single company.  —  Justice Department antitrust lawyers are homing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: After years of mismanagement and commingling funds, Binance plans to shift to a “semi-automated” model for handling reserves of its so-called B-Tokens  —  Binance Holdings Ltd. is shifting to a “semi-automated” process for handling the reserves that back tokens it issues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv: Memo: the European Commission bans TikTok on corporate devices and personal devices using corporate apps, and asks staff to uninstall the app by March 15  —  The EU executive’s IT service has asked all Commission employees to uninstall TikTok from their corporate devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mozilla Foundation: Analysis of the 40 most popular Android apps on the Google Play Store finds nearly 80% had discrepancies between their privacy policies and Data Safety labels  —  The apps’ privacy policies, however, both explicitly state that they share user information with advertisers, Internet service providers … Lees verder op Tech Meme