Welcome to the Tech Mem ride home for Thursday, June 11th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, it's Regulation News Day.

The EU might be about to file antitrust charges against Amazon, and California officially

labeled Uber and Lyft workers as employees.

Amazon also hit pause on its facial recognition tech as it waits for Congress to set some ground rules.

Photoshop camera is an interesting app and Postman is an interesting raise.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Sources are telling the Wall Street Journal that the European Union is planning on

filing formal antitrust charges against Amazon for scooping up data from

third-party sellers and using that information allegedly to compete with them.

Quote, the charges could be officially filed as early as next week or the week after one of the people said the European Commission

the Block's top antitrust regulator has been honing its case and the case team has

been circulating a draft of the charge sheet for a couple of months another person said. The formal charges

would be the Commission's latest step in a nearly two-year probe into Amazon's alleged

mistreatment of sellers that use its platform. The charges called a statement of objections stem from

Amazon's dual role as a marketplace operator and a seller of its own products

the people said. In them the EU accuses Amazon of scooping up data from third-party sellers and using that information to compete against them, for instance by launching similar products, end quote.

Actually, you might remember that it was a Wall Street Journal investigation in April that accused

Amazon of using data from sellers to develop its own in-house private label products.

Apparently it could take as long as a year or more for the Commission to decide if

Amazon indeed broke any laws even after they formally file, but if found guilty

...