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The EU’s giant experiment in tech micromanagement
New Digital Markets Act will be a test case for how far regulators can dictate design of products and services
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This is only the opening shot in the EU’s sweeping attempt to prise open the big tech platforms.
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How far should regulators go in dictating the basic designs of some of the most widely used tech products and services? The adoption of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA),
To comply with the Act, which aims to open up the most commonly used tech platforms and force greater user choice, the big tech companies have come up with a barrage of technical changes that they say will meet the new rules. It is now up to European regulators to comb through these and – where necessary – force further changes.
