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by pgeorgi 990 days ago
This process predates DMA, and given that it's the cartel office and not a data protection authority (although from what I've heard, the German federal DPO was much in favor of this effort), the angle was more about competition than privacy. The quote in the article drives that home: "Google’s competitors do not have these data and are thus faced with serious competitive disadvantages."