By Hartley Charlton, MacRumors
European Union lawmakers have approved landmark legislation to heavily regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other big tech firms.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) were proposed by the European Commission in December 2020. Now, collected in a “Digital Services Package,” the legislation has been formally adopted by the European Parliament and seeks to address “gatekeeper” big tech companies.
Apple is almost certain to be classified as a “gatekeeper” due to the size of its annual turnover in the EU, its ownership and operation of platforms with a large number of active users, and its “entrenched and durable position” due to how long it has met these criteria, and will therefore be subject to the rules set out in the DMA.
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