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European Union Findogs Fin Dewaching Apple and Meta Hundreds of millions of Euros Wednesday when they enforcement of the 27-nation’s 27-nation block of 27-nation block of Digital Complesion’s Digital Competition.
The European Commission imposed a 500 million Euro (US $ 571 Million) Well on Apple for APPLY APPE MAKERS FOR THE WOMANCE TO THE GOOD options to point out his app shop.
The Commission, that is the executive arm of the EU, also fined Meta Platforms 200 million, because the facebook between seeing in order to avoid avoiding them to prevent them to pay them.
The punishments were smaller than the blockbuster multibillion-euro fined that the Commission has previously struck on large tech companies in antitrust class.
Apple and Meta must follow the decisions within 60 days within 60 days or risking “periodic punishment payments,” said the Commission.
The decisions were expected to come in March, but the Selfavored Deadlinion slide in the middle of an Escostic trade world with American President Donald, who has complained with Brussels of Brussels that influence the US companies.
The fines were the first issued under the Act of the EU digital marks, also known as the DMA. It’s a sweep-rule book that amounts to do that you do a set of the do and not designed to provide consumers and companies and businesses to avoid “pouring partewachters” Civil Marks.
The DMA is looking for “that the citizens have used complete control, and how their data is to be used to be online, the executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, said in a statement.
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“The decisions assumed today that both Apple and Meta this free choice has removed from their users and required to change their behavior,” said field.
Both companys indicated they would appeal to.
Apple accused the “unfairly straight” the iPhone maker, and said it is “keeping the goals by moving” despite the company’s efforts to meet.
Meta Chief Global Affairs Joel Kaplan said in a statement that tries to enforce successful US companies in allowing chinese and European companies under several standards. “
In a press briefing in Brussels, Committee gaskals were sought to be tamping to tampen to tamp that the fines of trade vows.
“We don’t care about who a business. We don’t care about where the company is,” maid person, Thomas Regerner told reporters. “We’re entirely agnostic on that front.”
“And it is a Chinese company, be an American business, or be a European company, you will have to play through the rules in the European Union.”
In the App Store case, the Commission had charged the Iphone Maker of the impressive Unemployed for the Applications from Apply Designers from References for other channels.
Among the provisions of the DMA are requirements to allow developments to inform customers of cheaper purchasing options and focus them to those offers.
The Commission said that it has to remove technical and commercial restrictions that prevent the developments preventing events users to other channels and end “noncompliant” behavior.
Apple said it has “hundreds of thousands of engineering hours, made dozens of changes to meet this law, none of which our users have asked.”
“Notwithstanding countless encounters the Commission continues to move the goose away each step of the way, the company said.
The EU response’s Meta investigation of the US’s strategy in the company to meet customs of the option of the option of Face Facebook and Instagram.
Users could pay at least 10 euros (US $ 11.40) to prevent you to be addressed by ads based on their personal data. The US tech Giant Rolls the option to the European Union option of the European Union must first get permission before you give ads to users.
Regulators took issue with Meta’s model, saying that the right to practice their personal data, which make Facebook Marketplace, WhatsApp, WhatsApp, and Message to be Comments.
Meta rolled out of a third option in November who gives Facebook and Instagram in Europe the choice to see less personalized ads when they do not want to pay for an ad-free subscription. The Commission said it is currently “This option” and continues to keep chatting with Meta, and has asked the company to give evidence of the influence of the new option.
“This is not about a fine; the committee that forces us to change our business model that is a multibillion dollar is on Meta while you require us to offer a inferior service,” said Kaplan. “And by restricting personalized personnel, the European Commission is also hurt European companies and economies.”
The EU has sanctioned apple already under the DMA, but it has not involved a fine. The Block took this year to review the company to open his iPhone and Ipad that opens opens by screaming the steps, it must take better to work.
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