EU has started investigating Apple, Google and Meta

[britporn_mike]

Jesus the big tech companies are not getting a break are they


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68655093

"The EU has announced investigations into some of the biggest tech firms in the world over uncompetitive practices.

Alphabet, which owns Google, Meta, and Apple are all being looked into for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduced in 2022.

If they are found to have broken the rules, the firms can face huge fines of up to 10% of their annual turnover.

EU antitrust boss Margrethe Vestager and industry head Thierry Breton announced the investigations on Monday.

It comes three weeks after the EU fined Apple €1.8bn (£1.5bn) for breaking competition laws over music streaming.

Meanwhile, the United States accused Apple of monopolising the smartphone market in a landmark lawsuit against the tech giant introduced last week.

An Apple spokesperson says the company will constructively engage with the investigation and that they're confident that their plan complies with the Digital Markets Act. They added that their teams established a variety of mechanisms to comply with the EU's landmark legislation, as well as privacy and security protections for EU users."

[Matty2]

Why does the EU always go after our companies?

[BHT]

The EU investigates online businesses all the time. Don't they have anything better to do?

[Ricks-Cams]

Is it time we banned EU companies here and showed them who the real boss is.

[AlexO]

They pass laws and go after big companies, what a nice way to make money.