EU announces fines on Apple and Meta for breaking digital competition rules
The EU announces it is issuing Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines for breaking digital competition rules. The fines are the first to be made under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into effect last year, forcing the world's biggest tech firms to open up to competition in the EU.
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00:00So today the Commission has imposed fines of 500 million euro to Apple and 200 million euro to Meta for breaching the Digital Markets Act.
00:10Now Apple is indeed breaching its anti-steering obligations under the DMA by imposing a number of restrictions on app developers to steer their customers to alternative offers outside the Apple App Store.
00:24Meta, with its binary pay or consent advertising model, is breaching the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data.
00:37Now these two fines issued today are the first ones under the DMA.
