The EU’s crackdown on Big Tell began on Wednesday, as the European Commission issued the first penalty under the Digital Markets Act, a part of the controls designed to prevent their dominant position in the industry of the technology world from abuse.
Apple’s fine, the larger between the two, the total 500 million euros (570 million dollars), and the companies follow investigations that customers can save their money and prevent access to accessing – for example, if they pay out of the app store ecosystem. The European Commission has discovered that Apple apps prevent people from notifying people about the cheap ways to pay and have directed the agency to change this practice.
Meta, already, received a fine of 200 million euros ($ 228 million), as it provides binary choice to European people with meta platforms-facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp co-opening and accepting your data, or your data will be kept separate so that your data will be separated so that your data will be given to ensure an ED-free experience.
Since the European Commission initially told Meta this model does not agree with the DMA, the company introduced new practices that prefer how their data is used. However, the company still received a fine for the previous model.
Silicon Valley and EU have long been a false relationship. About 10 years ago, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook dismissed a huge EU tax bill as a “political bad”. But at the moment, the fine between geological tension between Europe and the United States is more divided than ever. The high-level regulatory decisions are often complicated to see how the technology industry affects the technology, but you need to just look Apple to exclude the iPhone’s lighting port on behalf of USB-C charging to reduce EU power to reduce the behavior of technology companies.
The target of the Digital Markets Act is doubled. It gives up-up technology agencies the opportunity to prove itself in an industry that is affected by the world’s rich companies. It is also designed to ensure that technical users (and sometimes more advance) are accessed throughout Europe, as well as the ability to make their money and how to use their data for themselves. Under the European Commission’s rules, up to 10% of their annual global income, the fine companies have the capacity to be proportional with the specific violation of the fine law.
“Enable business and consumers’ choice of free business and consumers in the main part of the rules mentioned in the Digital Markets Act,” said Hena Verkunen, executive vice president of the European Commission’s technical sovereignty. In a statement Tuesday. “Citizens include ensuring that their data is used online, and traders can feel free to contact their own customers. The decisions taken today have shown that both Apple and Meta have taken this free choice from their users and change their behavior.”
However, to the Silicon Valley Tech Giants, the EU’s view of the EU may often seem disciplinary, in some cases, forcing them to change them that they argue that they are actually worse for users. In a statement issued on Wednesday, an Apple spokesman accused the European commission’s remove the goalposts and said the company had planned to apply for the decision.
“Today’s declaration is another example of the European Commission unjustly targeting Apple in multiple decisions that our users are bad for privacy and protection, bad for products, and forced us to give us technology,” the organization said. “We spent a few thousand engineering time and have changed dozens to comply with this law, in which our users did not ask.”
Meanwhile, Mater Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said the European Commission was “trying to disable the successful American business when allowing Chinese and European agencies under various standards.” He added, “This is not just fine. The Commission effectively imposes a multi-billion dollar tariff to change our business model when we need to provide inferior services.
It is likely that the meta that is likely to be punished even after multiple changes in the business model, will also appeal to the fine. The European Commission has remained firm in order to make the change that it is asking to make it.