
Top EU official downplays expectations over digital fines for Apple and Meta.
The chief of the European Commission’s competition directorate downplayed expectations over the size of the fines that the EU executive is set to hand down to Apple and Meta for infringing the bloc’s digital antitrust rules.
The bloc’s Digital Markets Act is about compliance, not fines, says Olivier Guersent.
I see @ec.europa.eu has made one concession to its own privacy laws in the final version of the #iOS #DMA #interoperability technical specification summary, published on 9 March, which I identified as highly problematic in my assessment published in February #GDPR hdl.handle.net/10438/36526
What #Android’s Open #Ecosystem Can Teach #iOS Developers About Security in a Post-#DMA World #interoperability
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-androids-open-ecosystem-can-teach-ios-developers-obrador-sureda-qsm5c/?trackingId=LWtbwRFYTHSiA06u7t2AWA%3D%3D
E-Mail-Firma #Tuta darf bei #Apple nicht Default-App werden, beschwert sich bei EU | Mac & i https://www.heise.de/news/E-Mail-Firma-Tuta-darf-bei-Apple-nicht-Default-App-werden-beschwert-sich-bei-EU-10339864.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct
Google Maps statt Apple Maps: #iOS erlaubt Wahl neuer Default-App für Navigation | Mac & i https://www.heise.de/news/Auch-iOS-Navigations-App-defaultmaessig-waehlbar-Google-Maps-statt-Apple-Maps-10337123.html #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #Apple
Mal ne Frage an die Allgemeinheit...
Es mehren sich Aussagen, dass die EU die amerikanischen Big-Tech Unternehmen digital besteuern, bzw. mittels DMA und DSA hart bestrafen sollen. So wie jetzt ja wohl X mit 1 Milliarde.
Wie wahrscheinlich ist es also, dass dieses Thema insgesamt eskaliert und Muckelbirne Trump per Geo-IP Blocking die Datenverbindungen zwischen EU und USA kappt?
Here is Google’s announcement, with a lot of additional detail: https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/gmail-easy-end-to-end-encryption-all-businesses
NB this functionality is good from a security perspective, but its competitive implications will need to be thought through carefully: “the option to require all external recipients (even if they are Gmail users) to use the restricted version of #Gmail.” #DMCCA #DMA
#X potrebbe venire sanzionata dall'#UE per un miliardo di dollari (!) per violazioni del Digital Services Act (#DSA): non ha limitato contenuti illeciti o disinformazione
I commissari UE hanno sempre applicato rigorosamente DSA e #DMA
Ora però il rispetto delle leggi potrebbe avere ripercussioni sui rapporti UE/USA, perché #Musk ha incarichi governativi e per la deriva autocratica trumpiana
In breve siamo a regole contro caos.
La notizia si trova qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/eu-penalties-x-elon-musk.html
können wir bitte die Regeln des #DMA #DigitalMarketActs auch auf nicht #VLOP ausdehnen? dann wäre das datenschutzunfreundliche System der #PUR Abos die @derStandard erfunden hat ganz schnell wieder gestorben. und sie könnten auch authentischer über die Missachtung durch META und Konsorten berichten. #winwinwin
Tuta mail success versus Apple
The German email provider Tuta (previously known as Tutanota) had success versus Apple. After a Reuters journalist contacted Apple, things finally started rolling.
https://tuta.com/blog/dma-complaint-apple-tuta-default-mail-app
@krogulczyk @1br0wn I
#Beeper, and am very much hoping it will take advantage of the #DMA to go much further with #WhatsApp and #FBMessenger integration! /cc @matthew
#DMA: European Commission falls short on interoperability requirements for Apple
Despite initial promising steps, the @EUCommission 's measures on Apple’s compliance with interoperability procedures under the Digital Markets Act fall short.
The less stringent obligations on API documentation and long deadlines for interoperability solutions will impact how #FreeSoftware projects get interoperability from Apple.
What happened to 'interoperability by design'?
In December, 2024, the @EUCommission had proposed an interesting path for Apple to achieve higher standards of interoperability under the #DMA. The final version excluded several of these requirements.
A coalition of organisations and experts have weighted the positives and negatives of the final decision of how developers can request #interoperability from #Apple.
Meta spends now 10k € on lobbying in Brussels. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear he wants to challenge EU digital rules like the #DSA and #DMA. We will keep an eye on Meta's lobbying and defend our digital rules. https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/facebook-ireland-limited?rid=28666427835-74
Süchtig nach (a)-sozialen Medien?
Gegen die Lobbymacht von Google, Amazon, Meta & Co !
Mehr dazu bei https://www.lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digitalkonzerne/
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Link im Tor-Netzwerk: http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9109-20250402-suechtig-nach-a-sozialen-medien.html
Tags: #Lobbymacht #Messenger #Anonymisierung #Lauschangriff #Überwachung #GAFAM #Big5 #Google #Meta #DMA #Verschlüsselung #Smartphone #Handy #OpenSource #F-Droid #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Ergonomie #Datenpannen #Datenskandale
#Google funds this #EU think tank to put out policy papers saying #DigitalMarketsAct will break their lovely #PlayProtect scare screens, making us all less safe and "it require[s] Google to allow developers to insert links inside their Play Store apps".
https://ecipe.org/publications/eu-dma-undermine-security-mobile-operating-systems/#_ftn13
As I've always said in relation to the #DMA, let @fdroidorg compete on trustworthiness. I'd love to see this think thank include analysis malware rates of #CalyxOS with #FDroid and compare that to #GooglePlay #security