EU launches in-depth probe on Amazon over data use.
The EU's powerful antitrust authority launched an in-depth investigation into Amazon on Wednesday, amid suspicions the US-based online behemoth misuses merchant data hosted on its website.
"I have... decided to take a very close look at Amazon's business practices and its dual role as marketplace and retailer to assess its compliance with EU competition rules," the EU's anti-trust commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. Preliminary findings, according to the statement, indicate that Amazon"appears to use competitively sensitive information -- about marketplace sellers, their products and transactions on the marketplace."
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