Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Apple attempting to dodge the concerns of EU regulators. Epic Games reader comments 136 European Union regulators are investigating whether Apple’s recent revocation of an Epic Games iOS developer account puts the iPhone-maker in violation of the Digital Markets Act and other rules in the continent. If Apple is found ..
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reader comments 117 Apple is coming under fire from rivals Meta and Microsoft who say its plans to open up its mobile software to comply with a landmark EU law fail to go far enough, as the iPhone maker faces unprecedented regulatory challenges from Brussels over the coming month. EU regulators, who are preparing to ..
Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that feel so exhausting about Windows 11. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 79 with Using Windows these days means putting up with many, many pitches to use and purchase other Microsoft products. Some are subtle, like the ..
reader comments 60 with In the wake of Unity’s sudden fee structure change announcement last week, a European trade group representing thousands of game developers is calling on governments to “update their regulatory framework” to curb what they see as a “looming market failure” caused by “potentially anti-competitive market behavior.” In an open letter published ..
European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy, the first time that the popular short video-sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe’s strict data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead privacy regulator for Big Tech companies whose European headquarters are largely in Dublin, ..
reader comments 21 with TikTok has been hit with a €345 million EU fine over the way it processes the personal data of children and teenage users, the first handed out by the bloc to the Chinese-owned social media platform. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the regulator responsible for holding TikTok Technology to EU data protection ..
Enlarge / The iPhone 12, a phone that Apple no longer actively sells, is under investigation in France for potentially violating one of two electromagnetic radiation standards. Samuel Axon reader comments 199 with For many people, the iPhone 12 effectively disappeared from the market on Tuesday, when Apple introduced iPhone 15 models and stopped selling ..
reader comments 37 with After five years of fighting legal battles to prevent this undesirable outcome, Meta has finally agreed to ask Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union for consent before targeting them with highly personalized ads, a Wall Street Journal report has revealed. This means that instead of requiring Meta app users ..
The European Union and the United States this week reached an agreement on the Data Privacy Framework focusing on the secure transfer of information from Europe to the US. The framework is the culmination of a yearslong battle between Brussels and Washington over the security of European citizen data stored by tech giants such as ..
The European Union signed off Monday on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease European concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies. The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework has an adequate level of protection for personal data, the EU’s executive commission said. That ..