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Four Apple and Microsoft services to be left out of Digital Markets Act
The European Commission announced on 13 February that it decided not to designate Apple and Microsoft as gatekeepers for certain platform services under the Digital Markets Act.
Inside the police force scouring the internet to save abused children
Child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, leaving law enforcement fighting against the tide.
Rishi Sunak loves Big Tech. Why does he keep scaring them away?
A surveillance reform speeding through parliament is just the latest UK government proposal that has tech companies worried.
Meta challenges EU’s Big Tech rulebook over Messanger, Markeplace
Meta is appealing the designation of its instant messaging platform Messenger and intermediation service Marketplace that would make them subject to Europe’s strict regime of ex-ante rules. Under the Digital Markets Act, tech companies that have …
Google, telecom heavyweights push for interoperability on Apple’s iMessage
Google and the largest EU telecommunications operators called on the European Commission to designate Apple’s iMessage under the Digital Markets Act, which would oblige it to grant interoperability with other messaging services, in a letter seen by Eur…