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The European Union will cancel all .eu domains which have been registered by registrants in Britain after the country completes the Brexit process.

The European Union has raised the prospect that it may consider breaking up Google into a number of smaller units, saying it harbours "grave suspicions" about the firm's dominance of the search market.

The European Commission has unveiled proposals for taxing digital companies across the 28-member bloc, with an interim measure which will be replaced by a more permanent alternative.

Multinational US technology companies like Google and Facebook will have to pay a 3% turnover tax in the EU, according to a draft proposal from the European Commission.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire says the EU has plans to tax big multinational technology companies — like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — between 2% and 6% of their revenue, with the figure being closer to the lower end.

The European Union has tightened the screw on online companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, giving them an hour from notification to remove terrorist content which is posted on their platforms.

The European Union is, for once, reportedly drafting legislation that would meet with approval in the US, seeking to force commercial entities to provide access to data, no matter where it is physically stored.

The Competition Commission of India, the country's anti-trust watchdog, has fined Google 135.86 crore rupees (about US$21.1 million) for "abusing its dominant position in online general Web search and Web search advertising services in India".

Google's rivals in the online advertising and shopping fields say the search behemoth continues to prevent others from competing fairly, despite having copped a huge fine from the European Union and been ordered to modify its ways.

The European Commission has fined chip maker Qualcomm €997 million (A$1.53 billion) for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets.

American security intelligence company LogRhythm has released a module to make its security solution fully compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation that is scheduled to come into force on 25 May.

Google has managed to squirrel away €15.9 billion (US$19.2 billion) in a Bermuda shell company in 2016, helping the search behemoth to avoid paying at least US$3.7 billion in taxes, according to regulatory filings in the Netherlands.

The British Government has rounded on Twitter for revealing that the Russian-linked entities, in this case the broadcasting service RT, spent only a little over £1000 for advertising on the referendum, called in June last year to decide whether the UK should continue to remain a part of the European Union.

Facebook has changed its approach to booking its ad revenue, announcing that it will move to a local selling structure in countries where it has an office to support local advertising sales.

The Antitrust Authority in Israel is looking into a complaint by Artimedia, a platform for video advertising, that Google's dominance of the Internet advertising market could constitute a possible restraint of trade.

Apple and Ireland have reached a deal on terms for an escrow fund for a €13 billion (US$17.6 billion) fine imposed by the European Union in August last year, with the money to stay in the fund while both the tech firm and Dublin appeal the EU's verdict.

The European Union has told online sales outfits that operate within its jurisdiction that they will have to stop redirecting would-be customers to the site in their own countries from the end of 2018.

The US state of Missouri has launched an investigation into Google, seeking to determine whether the search giant has broken consumer protection and anti-trust laws.

Google is likely to be hit with another big fine from the European Union in the next few weeks, this time over its AdSense advertising system.

The level of ignorance within industry about data protection laws has been underlined by a survey that found nearly three-fourths (69%) of companies believed that their cloud provider was taking care of all data privacy and compliance regulations and also protecting the company's data in the cloud.