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Korea Antitrust Hits Crossroads: KFTC Escalates Coupang Probe as Courts Overturn Platform Fines
A general view shows the logo of South Korean online delivery service Coupang, at a building housing the…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Coupang #antitrust #DigitalMarketsAct #KFTC #Naver #platformregulation #Self-preferencing #SouthKorea
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The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
#MicrosoftEdge #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #TechNews #BrowserWars
https://securityonline.info/eu-exempts-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
#MicrosoftEdge #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #TechNews #BrowserWars
https://securityonline.info/eu-exempts-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
#MicrosoftEdge #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #TechNews #BrowserWars
https://securityonline.info/eu-exempts-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
#MicrosoftEdge #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #TechNews #BrowserWars
https://securityonline.info/eu-exempts-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
#MicrosoftEdge #EuropeanUnion #DigitalMarketsAct #TechNews #BrowserWars
https://securityonline.info/eu-exempts-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Is the #DigitalMarketsAct moving beyond its 'teething phase' or do key questions on compliance and procedural fairness remain? 🔍
Our latest #DigitalCompetitionDay recap looks at why the DMA’s impact should be assessed through both benefits and costs.
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Is the #DigitalMarketsAct moving beyond its 'teething phase' or do key questions on compliance and procedural fairness remain? 🔍
Our latest #DigitalCompetitionDay recap looks at why the DMA’s impact should be assessed through both benefits and costs.
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FYI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms #AppStores #SearchEngine
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FYI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms #AppStores #SearchEngine
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FYI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms #AppStores #SearchEngine
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ICYMI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulations #GatekeeperPlatforms #DigitalEconomy #AppStores
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ICYMI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulations #GatekeeperPlatforms #DigitalEconomy #AppStores
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ICYMI: Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EURegulations #GatekeeperPlatforms #DigitalEconomy #AppStores
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Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EULaw #DataAccess #AppStoreRegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms
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Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EULaw #DataAccess #AppStoreRegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms
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Explaining Digital Markets Act: Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access. https://ppc.land/digital-markets-act/ #DigitalMarketsAct #EULaw #DataAccess #AppStoreRegulation #GatekeeperPlatforms
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Apple’s services business: iPhone maker feels effects of regulation
Apple has agreed with the EU Commission on new rules for the App Store, according to the company. International regulatory pressure may play a role.
#AppStore #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #InAppKäufe #Mobiles #Regulierung #Wettbewerb #Wirtschaft #news
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Apples Dienstgeschäft: iPhone-Hersteller spürt Effekte der Regulierung
Apple einigte sich nach eigenen Angaben mit der EU-Kommission auf neue Regeln für den App Store. Internationaler Regulierungsdruck könnte eine Rolle spielen.
#AppStore #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #InAppKäufe #Mobiles #Regulierung #Wettbewerb #Wirtschaft #news
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The Internet Was Built With Public Money
Its Private Gatekeepers Must Answer to the Public.
By Cliff Potts | WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, Philippines, July 27, 2026 — 0005 PhST
The European Union’s decision to fine Google €890 million—approximately US$1 billion—is more than another regulatory dispute between Brussels and an enormously profitable American corporation. It raises a question governments should have confronted decades ago: How did private companies acquire the power to determine who may be found, heard, read, and economically successful on a communications system built substantially with public money?
The European Commission imposed €460 million of the penalty because Google allegedly favored its own shopping, hotel, flight, and other commercial services in search results. Another €430 million concerned Google Play restrictions that prevented application developers from freely directing customers toward less expensive purchasing options outside Google’s store (European Commission, 2026; Reuters, 2026).
Google disputes the European findings and may challenge the penalties. However, the larger issue is not whether one particular search-result design was convenient or whether a developer signed a contract containing restrictive terms. The issue is whether a corporation that controls a primary gateway to information should be permitted to use that position to benefit its own businesses and disadvantage smaller competitors.
Google is not merely another website competing for attention. It operates infrastructure that determines whether millions of other websites receive attention at all.
The public built the foundation
The internet was not created in a Silicon Valley garage.
Its foundations emerged from decades of publicly funded research, including work by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. NSFNET became the principal American internet backbone, growing from approximately 2,000 connected computers in 1986 to more than 2 million by 1993. The National Science Foundation retired that publicly supported backbone in 1995 as commercial internet services expanded (National Science Foundation, n.d.).
Private companies subsequently invested enormous amounts in fiber-optic networks, cellular systems, data centers, software, cloud computing, and consumer services. That investment should not be dismissed. Nevertheless, it was built upon protocols, research, networks, and technical knowledge created with substantial support from American taxpayers, public universities, government laboratories, and publicly funded researchers.
Tor offers another instructive example.
The onion-routing research that eventually produced Tor began at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The technology was designed to permit private communication across public networks by passing encrypted traffic through multiple relays. Its developers later released the software publicly, and the independent Tor Project eventually assumed responsibility for its continued development (Tor Project, n.d.).
That public release was not merely charity. An anonymity network used only by government personnel would provide little anonymity because participation itself could identify a user as a government agent. A broad civilian network provided the crowd in which official users could disappear. At the same time, the technology became useful to journalists, dissidents, whistleblowers, researchers, abuse survivors, and people living under censorship.
Tor demonstrates that publicly financed technology can remain broadly available as civic infrastructure rather than becoming a privately controlled tollbooth.
Private companies became private governments
The problem is not that businesses were permitted to operate online. Commercial participation helped transform a specialized research network into a global communications system.
The problem is that elected governments allowed a handful of businesses to become the internet’s unelected governments.
Google influences what information people discover. Meta determines which publishers and creators reach audiences who have already chosen to follow them. Apple and Google control access to most mobile application users. Major cloud providers control systems upon which businesses, governments, publishers, and public services increasingly depend.
These corporations establish rules, impose penalties, change algorithms, restrict distribution, collect information, and decide which competing services are visible. Their decisions can destroy a small business or independent publication without a hearing, explanation, meaningful appeal, or democratic accountability.
An independent publisher such as WPS News does not need to be personally targeted to be harmed. A search company can reduce traffic to thousands of publishers simultaneously by changing an algorithm, placing its own services above independent results, or using artificial intelligence to answer questions directly without sending readers to the original reporting.
The injury may be impersonal, but it is still real.
A publisher can conduct research, produce original work, maintain a website, follow technical recommendations, and publish consistently—only to discover that access to readers depends upon machinery controlled by companies that may operate competing news, advertising, video, artificial-intelligence, or information services.
That is not an open marketplace. It is economic dependence upon a gatekeeper.
Regulation is not theft
Corporate defenders frequently describe regulation as government interference with private enterprise. That description ignores both the public origin of the network and the power these companies now exercise over others.
The public financed much of the road. Private companies built businesses beside it, improved portions of it, and created useful vehicles for traveling upon it. They were then allowed to erect tollbooths, redirect traffic toward their own stores, and decide which smaller operators could place signs along the highway.
Elected officials have every right—and a public duty—to question that arrangement.
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act identifies exceptionally powerful technology companies as “gatekeepers” and subjects them to requirements intended to make digital markets fairer and more contestable. The law is explicitly designed to prevent dominant platforms from using control of essential services to suppress competition (European Commission, n.d.).
The €890 million penalty will not dismantle Google, democratize the internet, or guarantee traffic for independent publishers. Google can absorb a billion-dollar fine more easily than almost any small competitor can absorb a bad month.
Meaningful regulation must therefore do more than collect money. It must change behavior.
Dominant search services should not secretly favor their own commercial operations. Application stores should not prevent developers from informing customers about alternatives. Ranking systems that determine economic survival require greater transparency. Publishers should have enforceable rights concerning how their work is copied, summarized, indexed, and used to train or operate artificial-intelligence systems.
Governments did not spend decades creating a global communications network so that several corporations could privately determine who deserves access to the public.
American taxpayers paid for the foundation. Their parents paid for it. Their institutions built it. Their elected representatives are entitled to demand that the businesses occupying its most powerful gateways operate fairly.
The internet may no longer be publicly owned in any simple legal or physical sense. But it remains a public highway in function, necessity, and origin.
The public has every right to insist that its gatekeepers answer to the people traveling upon it.
References
European Commission. (2026). Digital Markets Act enforcement concerning Google Search and Google Play.
European Commission. (n.d.). Digital Markets Act: Ensuring fair and contestable digital markets.
National Science Foundation. (n.d.). Birth of the commercial internet.
Reuters. (2026, July 23). Google hit with $1 billion EU fine in first penalties under landmark rules.
Tor Project. (n.d.). History of Tor and onion routing.
#antitrust #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTechRegulation #digitalCompetition #DigitalMarketsAct #EuropeanUnion #Google #GooglePlay #GoogleSearch #independentPublishers #internetGatekeepers #NavalResearchLaboratory #NSFNET #publicInternet #TorProject #WPSNews -
https://www.europesays.com/dk/134217/ Google fined €890m over EU competition breaches #Alphabet #Antitrust #CompetitionLaw #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #EUFine #EuropeanCommission #Finland #Google #GooglePlay #GoogleSearch #helsinki #HennaVirkkunen #KentWalker #TeresaRibera
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Wem gehört dein Android wirklich noch?
Ab dem 30. September 2026 entscheidet ein Google-Systemdienst, ob eine App auf deinem Android installiert werden darf, egal ob sie aus dem Play Store, von F-Droid oder per Kabel vom eigenen Rechner kommt. Deinstallieren kannst du ihn nicht, und was als Malware gilt, bestimmt Google allein. Reden wir drüber!
https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-23-11-20-31-wem-gehoert-dein-android-wirklich-noch/
#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ITSicherheit #Android #Google #DeGoogeln #GrapheneOS #eOS #LineageOS #DigitalMarketsAct #PlayStore
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The #Europe|an Commission issued two binding specification measures to #Google under the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA. The first measure ensures competitors’ #AI services have equal access to #Android features, allowing users to activate their preferred #AIassistant via voice commands and perform actions in apps. The second measure mandates Google to share #searchdata with third-party #searchengines, promoting innovation and a level playing field. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1634?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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IPHONES Apple Under Italian Antitrust Investigation Over iCloud Access and Digital Markets Act Compliance cinquewnews.blogspot.com/2026/06/appl... #AppleInvestigation #ItalianAntitrust #DigitalMarketsAct #TechRegulation #iCloudAccess #AntitrustBehaviour #TechMonopolisation #iPhoneNews #TechNews
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iOS 26.2: Einstellungen für virtuellen Assistenten am Seitentaster vorerst nur in Japan
Die neue iOS-Version 26.2 von Apple ermöglicht es erstmals, einen anderen Sprachassistenten als Siri mit dem Seitentaster zu starten – jedoch zunächst aussc
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/feature/ios-26-2-einstellungen-fuer-virtuellen-assistenten-am-seitentaster-vorerst-nur-in-japan/
#Feature #KI #10MilliardenEuro #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #IOS262 #iPhone #Japan #Seitentaster #Siri #sprachassistent -
EU-Beschwerde gegen Apple: Notarisierung unter Kritik
Eine neue Beschwerde gegen Apple sorgt für Diskussionen in der Europäischen Union. Der Grund: Die Notarisierungspflicht für Apps könnte Entwickler:innen und Nutzer:innen einschränken.Notarisierung im Fo
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/eu-beschwerde-gegen-apple-notarisierung-unter-kritik/
#News #Sicherheit #Tellerrand #AppStore #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #Entwicklerinnen #EU #Kontrolle #Notarisierung #Nutzerinnen #Sicherheit -
Apple und EU: Einigung bei App-Store-Regeln zeichnet sich ab
Apple nähert sich einer Einigung mit der Europäischen Kommission im Streit um die App-Store-Regeln. Die Vereinbarung soll hohe Strafen abwenden, die der Digital Markets Act bei Verstößen vorsieht.Intensive Verh
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/feature/apple-und-eu-einigung-bei-app-store-regeln-zeichnet-sich-ab/
#Feature #Tellerrand #AppStore #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #Entwicklerinnen #EU #Kartellrecht #Strafen #Wettbewerb -
Es droht Zukunft | #LogbuchNetzpolitik
Feedback — #DigitalMarketsAct — #Innenministerkonferenz — #Chatkontrolle — #Palantir und #PeterThiel:
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iOS 18.6 Beta 3: Änderungen ausschließlich für EU-Nutzer:innen
Apple hat die dritte Beta-Version von iOS 18.6 vorgestellt. Während Apple aktuell mit iOS 26 und neuen Features viel Au
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-6-beta-3-aenderungen-ausschliesslich-fuer-eu-nutzerinnen/
#iPhone #News #AppStoreRichtlinien #Apple #AppleEntwickler #AppleHardware #BetaVersion #DigitalMarketsAct #EUAppStore #HomeHub #HomePad #IOS186 #IOSBetaInstallieren #RegulierungEU #Softwareaktualisierung -
iOS 18.6 Beta 3: Änderungen ausschließlich für EU-Nutzer:innen
Apple hat die dritte Beta-Version von iOS 18.6 vorgestellt. Während Apple aktuell mit iOS 26 und neuen Features viel Au
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-6-beta-3-aenderungen-ausschliesslich-fuer-eu-nutzerinnen/
#iPhone #News #AppStoreRichtlinien #Apple #AppleEntwickler #AppleHardware #BetaVersion #DigitalMarketsAct #EUAppStore #HomeHub #HomePad #IOS186 #IOSBetaInstallieren #RegulierungEU #Softwareaktualisierung -
iOS 18.6 Beta 3: Änderungen ausschließlich für EU-Nutzer:innen
Apple hat die dritte Beta-Version von iOS 18.6 vorgestellt. Während Apple aktuell mit iOS 26 und neuen Features viel Au
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-6-beta-3-aenderungen-ausschliesslich-fuer-eu-nutzerinnen/
#iPhone #News #AppStoreRichtlinien #Apple #AppleEntwickler #AppleHardware #BetaVersion #DigitalMarketsAct #EUAppStore #HomeHub #HomePad #IOS186 #IOSBetaInstallieren #RegulierungEU #Softwareaktualisierung -
iOS 18.6 Beta 3: Änderungen ausschließlich für EU-Nutzer:innen
Apple hat die dritte Beta-Version von iOS 18.6 vorgestellt. Während Apple aktuell mit iOS 26 und neuen Features viel Au
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-6-beta-3-aenderungen-ausschliesslich-fuer-eu-nutzerinnen/
#iPhone #News #AppStoreRichtlinien #Apple #AppleEntwickler #AppleHardware #BetaVersion #DigitalMarketsAct #EUAppStore #HomeHub #HomePad #IOS186 #IOSBetaInstallieren #RegulierungEU #Softwareaktualisierung -
iOS 18.6 Beta 3: Änderungen ausschließlich für EU-Nutzer:innen
Apple hat die dritte Beta-Version von iOS 18.6 vorgestellt. Während Apple aktuell mit iOS 26 und neuen Features viel Au
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-6-beta-3-aenderungen-ausschliesslich-fuer-eu-nutzerinnen/
#iPhone #News #AppStoreRichtlinien #Apple #AppleEntwickler #AppleHardware #BetaVersion #DigitalMarketsAct #EUAppStore #HomeHub #HomePad #IOS186 #IOSBetaInstallieren #RegulierungEU #Softwareaktualisierung -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/246657/ Apple appeals ‘unprecedented’ €500m EU antitrust fine #AntiCompetition #Antitrust #AppStore #Apple #AppleAppStore #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #EU #EuFine #Europe #European
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Apple passt EU-App-Store-Regeln durch komplexere Gebührenmodelle an
Im Zuge wachsender regulatorischer Anforderungen durch
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/feature/apple-passt-eu-app-store-regeln-durch-komplexere-gebuehrenmodelle-an/
#Feature #Tellerrand #AlternativeZahlungswege #AntiSteering #AppEntwicklung #AppStoreGebhren #Apple #CoreTechnologyCommission #DigitalMarketsAct #DigitaleRegulierung #Entwicklerinnen #EpicGames #EUAppStore #RegulatorischeAnforderungen #StoreKit #TimSweeney -
Open source and common standards are great when (insert fanboy trademark here) already use or benefit from it, otherwise it is bad and (insert fanboy trademark here) should be allowed to do what the fuck they want. #DigitalMarkets #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA
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Apple und die EU: Streitpunkt DMA-Interoperabilität
In der Tech-Welt sorgt die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Apple und der Europäischen Union für Spannungen. Seit der EU-Beschluss zur Förderung der Interoperabilität über den Digital Markets Act (DMA) erlasse
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-und-die-eu-streitpunkt-dma-interoperabilitaet/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #AppleIOS #Datenschutz #DigitalMarketsAct #EURecht #Europa #Interoperabilitt #Nutzersicherheit #Technologieintegration -
iPhone Mirroring bleibt in der EU mit iOS 18.4 weiterhin deaktiviert
Mit iOS 18.4 bringt Apple erstmals Apple Intelligence in die EU – allerdings bleibt eine Funktion weiterhin ausges
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/iphone/iphone-mirroring-bleibt-in-der-eu-mit-ios-18-4-weiterhin-deaktiviert/
#iPhone #News #AppleDMA #AppleEUEinschrnkungen #AppleIntelligenceEU #AppleInteroperabilitt #AppleIOS18Features #AppleScreenSharing #DigitalMarketsAct #IOS184 #IPhoneBildschirmAufMac #IPhoneMirroring -
EU könnte Apple wegen Verstoßes gegen DMA-Steuerungsregeln anklagen
Die Europäische Kommission bereitet sich Berichten zufolge darauf vor, Apple anzuklagen, weil das Unternehmen angeblich gegen die Regeln des Digital Markets A
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/eu-koennte-apple-wegen-verstosses-gegen-dma-steuerungsregeln-anklagen/
#News #Apple #BigTech #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #DrittanbieterSoftwareentwickler #EuropischeKommission #Geldstrafen #InAppKufe #Marktregulierung #Wettbewerb -
Die britische Regierung hat Pläne vorgelegt, wie sie im Technologiesektor die Dominanz großer Plattformen wie Apple, Google und Facebook brechen will.
Big-Tech-Regeln: Großbritannien klont den Digital Markets Act der EU