EU verschärft Regeln für Buchungsportal Booking.com
Die EU-Kommission hat das Buchungsportal Booking.com als wichtige Schnittstelle zwischen Unternehmen und Verbrauchern eingestuft. Die Plattform muss deshalb höhere Auflagen erfüllen. Urlauber könnten davon profitieren.
The fact that after EU passed Digital Markets Act, non-Chrome/Safari browsers begin to increase their share, shows that even a watered down law can make a difference. That's not to say it's all over – on the contrary, it's important to push further and make sure Apple/Google truly give people the choice – but the signs are so far positive https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/
Today, we have opened five non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act.
It concerns:
🔹Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play
🔹Alphabet’s self-preferencing in Google Search
🔹Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store
🔹Apple's choice screen for Safari
🔹Meta’s ‘pay or consent model’
Having attended most of last week's #DMA compliance workshops in person, I was already convinced that the EU Commission would have no choice but to investigate if it doesn't want to lose all credibility for the #DigitalMarketsAct; the gatekeeper's circumvention attempts are just too blatant to ignore.
I wasn't sure they would act so swiftly though, so thank you @EU_Commission ! 👏
The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".
When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta has to do that because of #GDPR 😤 Really??
While Alphabet seems to be better in terms of the new #browser & #search choice screens, they have a strange view regarding their new obligation to allow un-installing pre-installed apps like #PlayStore or #Gmail:
Alphabet's lobbyists argue un-install and remove are two different things and as the #DigitalMarketsAct's Art 6(3) only mandates un-install but not removal, the current "deactivation" feature in Android would be enough. 🤔
Wow, #Google's engineering lead claims that they had 3,000 employees working for 2 years full-time to implement the #DMA's article 5(2) prohibition of cross-sharing or combining people's personal data across services without #consent.
I'm sitting in the @EU_Commission#DMA compliance workshop for #Apple right now and as much as I appreciate the format, it's frustrating to see that Apple is the only party on the panel and in addition has its proxies like #CCIA and the #AppAssociation#ACT in the audience that are allowed to ask convenient questions and steer the discussion in Apple's interest.
Google rollt seine - dem Druck des #DMA geschuldeten - Änderungen am Pixel Launcher wohl gerade aus.
So berichten einige Nutzende dass ihnen nach einem spontanen Neustart ihres Gerätes alternative Suchmaschinen neben Google zur Auswahl gestellt wurden.
Spannend ist die doch sehr eingeschränkte Auswahl an Suchmaschinen, wobei ich als #DuckDuckGo Ultra zufrieden sein darf.
Meine Empfehlung wäre weiterhin, sein Pixel-Smartphone mittels @GrapheneOS weitestgehend zu entgoogeln. Wer den Aufwand scheut, darf sich über das (erzwungene) Entgegenkommen von Google dennoch freuen.
It looks like #Apple is using salami tactics with the @EU_Commission on #DMA compliance, giving up tiny slices in hope that might sway (and shut up) the regulator and the public.
I sincerely hope the Commission's enforcement team is not being fooled by this.
Den großen Tech-Giganten geht es endlich an den Kragen und zwar ordentlich. Der #DigitalMarketsAct der EU soll fairen Wettbewerb garantieren und die Monopol-Stellungen der Big Player aufbrechen. Die Vorgaben und Einschränkungen sind streng und können bei Verstoß auch mit hohen Strafen geahndet werden. Denn die Übermacht der Konzerne schadet nicht nur der Konkurrenz, sondern auch der Demokratie. Große Marktmacht bedeutet auch politischen Einfluss:
Apple su iOS aprirà ai browser non basati su WebKit, Google modifica alcuni risultati di ricerca e disattiva il tracciamento predefinito dei propri utenti attraverso i servizi.
#Meta ha dato un assaggio dei lavori per l'interoperabilità della messaggistica con #WhatsApp e #Messenger.
A partire da oggi a mezzanotte non potranno più ricorrere a pratiche sleali nei confronti di coloro che dipendono da loro - con multe fino al 20% del loro fatturato globale in caso di inadempienze multiple
When an #EU user installs a third-party app store with #iOS 17.4 and travel outside the EU "for a longer period of time", that app store will stop working.
So they will stop getting updates. From the oh-we're-so-secure phone company. Seriously #WTF Apple.