The European Union is targeting Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies.
It’s “time to turn the tables and ensure that no online platform behaves as if it was ‘too big to care,’” European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who’s in charge of the bloc’s digital policy, said ahead of the announcement.
Those services include Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, chat apps like Meta’s WhatsApp, social networks like TikTok, and others playing a middleman role like Amazon’s Marketplace and Apple’s App Store. Messaging services will be required to work with each other. That means Telegram or Signal users could exchange texts or video files with WhatsApp users.
Online services can’t combine a user’s personal data to build up a profile for targeted advertising, unless consent is explicitly given.
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