With Amazon probe, European Union takes cue from 'hipster' antitrust

EU Competition Commissioner says, the EU was looking into the issue because it came up in a broad e-commerce sector investigation concluded last year

The European Union’s antitrust cop has taken an aggressive lead in regulating US tech giants in recent years. But with its latest query into Amazon.com, the EU is echoing the views of a 29-year-old legal scholar across the Atlantic.
 

EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday she had begun a preliminary probe into whether data the e-commerce giant collects from retailers that sell on its site gives Amazon an edge in marketing its own products to customers. Vestager said the EU was looking into the issue because it came up in a broad e-commerce sector investigation concluded last year, and