The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 27
Elon Musk’s turbulent offer to buy Twitter for 44 billion USD has entered a new phase with Musk announcing that he is backing out of the deal arguing Twitter has not provided enough information about its users. The company’s chairman Bret Taylor tweeted that the company will go to court and intends to finalize the deal that Musk earlier has offered.
An increasing number of European countries plan to force international streaming companies like Netflix to pay a kind of streaming tax to support local TV and film production following the booming popularity of American streaming services. . The French have another approach with the country’s film industry joining forces with Netflix, the by far biggest streaming service in Europe.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has informed its counterparts in Europe that it plans to block Facebook-owner Meta from sending user data from Europe to the U.S., Politico reported. European privacy activists have for years been fighting transfer of big amount of personal data from EU to the U.S. Already 2020, European Court of justice annulled an EU-US data flow agreement referring to U.S. surveillance practices.
Twitter is challenging Indian government orders to take down content. The company has gone to court reacting against a letter from the government warning of “serious consequences” of non-compliance of such orders, BBC reported quoting sources. Federal minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweeted that all foreign Internet platforms had to comply with Indian laws. Twitter is estimated to have 24 million users in India.
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