Amazon stands under suspicion competition-adversely to act

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According to the EU Commission, Amazon is illegally exploiting data of its merchants. Meanwhile, two antitrust proceedings are underway against the US company on suspicion of violating EU law.
Proceedings have been ongoing since last year
Last year, the EU Commission had already officially initiated competition proceedings against Amazon. The background was the suspicion of illegal business practices by the online merchant. In particular, the dual role as a platform for other traders and as a merchant raised concerns. Amazon is said to have used this advantage to improve its own offer. A systematic use of the data of merchants on Amazon’s marketplace would be anti-competitive. This suspicion has now probably been confirmed. It was apparently established by the EU Commission that Amazon employees have access to the non-public sales data of the individual dealers. This is a very enormous amount of data, which is then automatically evaluated.
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