Ex-CMA director Ann Pope seeks EUR 800 million from Visa and Mastercard over EEA card fees
Former CMA senior director Ann Pope is seeking about EUR 800 million from Visa and Mastercard for some 126,000 UK merchants over fees on EEA-issued cards. Her case rests on the payment regulator's finding that the schemes faced no effective competitive constraint when they raised those fees after Brexit.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Google is on trial in London over claims its 30% Play Store fee overcharged 20 million UK consumers by up to £1.2 billion. Over nearly 11 years of purchases that comes to about £60 a head, for a fee Google agreed in March to cut under its settlement with Epic Games.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 31%
- Operator
- Operator 34%
- Investor
- Investor 35%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
UK developers bill Apple £2 billion for exempting its own ads from the tracking prompt
The claim covers any free app funded by advertising and attaches £2 billion to five years of consent prompts, without saying how that figure was built or when London's tribunal will get around to hearing it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives66
- Confidence44
Former CMA official asks a London tribunal to price Apple's tracking prompt at £2bn
The claim treats App Tracking Transparency as an attribution problem for UK developers rather than a privacy setting, and it needs the tribunal to accept that Apple's own ad business never cleared the same bar.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Google closes the UK Play Store fee case at 26p in the pound
The £260m deal arrives a month before trial with no admission of liability. Of that total, £100m pays the lawyers and funders who built the case, not the developers who paid the commission.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives78
- Confidence57