Google Wins EU Top Court Clash Over Bid to Regulate Gmail (2)

Google won a rare victory against European Union regulation after judges at the bloc’s top court sided with the U.S tech giant in a spat with Germany over its bid to force Gmail to comply with telecom rules.

Gmail isn’t an “electronic communications service” under 2002 phone-industry rules, the EU’s Court of Justice said in a June 13 ruling. Judges examined whether web-based email was a form of “conveyance of signals” to be regulated. Splitting up messages into data packets and transmitting them wasn’t enough to be such a service, they determined.

The EU’s top court was asked to guide ...