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Visa and Mastercard reach deal with merchants

Visa and Mastercard have announced a settlement with their merchant clients over litigation related to swipe fees when people pay with cards. The deal is the card groups' latest attempt to settle a 20-year dispute with merchants over credit card interchange fees. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, the card companies will cut so-called interchange fees levied to merchants by an average of 0.1 percentage points over five years, and merchants will have the right to decline some higher-cost Visa and Mastercard-branded credit cards and will gain new rights to add surcharges for accepting some cards.

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Activists slam proposed changes to landmark EU privacy law

Activists have criticised proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law. EU antitrust chief Henna Virkkunen will present the Digital Omnibus, in effect a package of proposals to simplify overlapping legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation, the Artificial Intelligence Act, the e-Privacy Directive and the Data Act, on November 19. Austrian privacy group noyb commented: "The draft Digital Omnibus proposes countless changes to many different articles of the GDPR. In combination this amounts to a death by a thousand cuts." Max Schrems of noyb said: "This would be a massive downgrading of Europeans' privacy 10 years after the GDPR was adopted."

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