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Daily Dashboard | Salesforce asks EU regulators to oppose Microsoft-LinkedIn deal, will work with regulators Related reading: EU parliamentary elections: The process and potential digital policy impacts

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ZDNet reports Salesforce has made a request to the European Union to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. The company argues the deal is anticompetitive, creates data privacy issues, and would give Microsoft an unfair advantage. “By gaining ownership of LinkedIn's unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny competitors access to that data, and in doing so obtain an unfair competitive advantage,” said Salesforce’s Chief Legal Officer Burke Norton. “Salesforce believes this raises significant antitrust and data privacy issues that need to be fully scrutinized by competition and data privacy authorities in the United States and in the European Union. We intend to work closely with regulators, lawmakers and other stakeholders to make the case that this merger is anticompetitive.”
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