Amazon may face EU antitrust probe over use of merchant data: Source

BRUSSELS: Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, could face an EU antitrust investigation within days over its use of merchants’ data, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The European Commission has been seeking feedback from retailers and manufacturers since September last year, one of several competition enforcers taking a deeper look into Amazon’s business practices amidst calls by some for its break-up.
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said the issue is about a company hosting merchants on its site and at the same time competing with those same retailers by using their data for its own sales.