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Apple and Meta hit with the EU’s first DMA antitrust fines | Meta and Apple have 60 days to comply with European demands or risk more fines.
The companies only have 60 days to comply.
Companies designated under the law as “gatekeepers” — Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, ByteDance, and Microsoft — over “core platform services” they offer must comply with rules intended to reduce anticompetitive behavior. This includes ensuring that citizens have full control over when and how their data is used online, and businesses can freely communicate with their own customers,” says Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy. The Commission says that the size of Apple’s fine “takes into account the gravity and duration of the non-compliance.” The company has also been ordered to remove the restrictions on developers linking out to and promoting other payment services.
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