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Digital Markets Act: Agreement in EU on new regulation of big tech (europa.eu)
9 points by dybber on March 25, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


“Gatekeepers will have to:

- ensure that users have the right to unsubscribe from core platform services under similar conditions to subscription

- for the the most important software (e.g. web browsers), not require this software by default upon installation of the operating system

- ensure the interoperability of their instant messaging services’ basic functionalities

- allow app developers fair access to the supplementary functionalities of smartphones (e.g. NFC chip)

- give sellers access to their marketing or advertising performance data on the platform

- inform the European Commission of their acquisitions and mergers

But they can no longer:

- rank their own products or services higher than those of others (self-preferencing)

- reuse private data collected during a service for the purposes of another service establish unfair conditions for business users

- pre-install certain software applications

- require app developers to use certain services (e.g. payment systems or identity providers) in order to be listed in app stores”




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