Haven’t seen any posts about this and it’s a pretty big thing. From DMA website:
Examples of the “do’s”: gatekeepers will for example have to:
- allow third parties to inter-operate with the gatekeeper’s own services in certain specific situations;
- provide companies advertising on their platform with the tools and information necessary for advertisers and publishers to carry out their own independent verification of their advertisements hosted by the gatekeeper;
- allow their business users to promote their offer and conclude contracts with their customers outside the gatekeeper’s platform.
Example of the “don’ts”: gatekeepers will for example no longer:
- treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third parties on the gatekeeper’s platform;
- prevent users from un-installing any pre-installed software or app if they wish so;
- track end users outside of the gatekeepers’ core platform service for the purpose of targeted advertising, without effective consent having been granted.
We’ll see how this plays out but this is first move in a very long time that could open up platform like WhatsApp to 3rd party clients and force Google and Apple to open their mobile OSes to other apps. Maybe we’ll see stock Android without play services? One can dream…
P.S. https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu - page about the legislation
Because all those Tech Giants are American or Chinese. EU is lagging behind US on innovation so now they want to make Tech Giants jobs more difficult in hopes that this will create some openings for EU tech firms. They don’t really care about you’re privacy that much, they just want it make more difficult for Google and Facebook to siphon money out of EU. It’s still great for us, don’t get me wrong.
Look, QAnon think tank: https://www.csis.org/analysis/implications-digital-markets-act-transatlantic-cooperation
The DMA proposal is one in a series of initiatives the European Union is implementing to cement its position as a first-mover of standards and agenda-setter for global technology regulation. It cannot be ignored that many in Europe see the DMA package as an integral part of the European Union’s ambitions for European “technological sovereignty,” with the overall goal of building independent, self-reliant systems across a wide range of fields, but particularly in the digital sector.
Look, QAnon MEP: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/opinion/empowering-european-digital-leaders-after-regulation-lets-quickly-promote-innovation/
Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). According to the first regulation, everything that is illegal offline will also be illegal online. With the second, we are giving breathing room to businesses by ensuring a level playing field.
Look, CNBC and American lawmakers are also QAnon: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/lawmakers-ask-biden-to-tell-eu-to-stop-unfairly-targeting-us-tech-companies.html
“As European leaders have made clear, the DMA as currently drafted is driven not by concerns regarding appropriate market share, but by a desire to restrict American companies’ access in Europe in order to prop up European companies,”
Idiot.
