Internal docs: EU may ban big tech companies from preferencing their own services or exclusively pre-installing their own apps as part of Digital Services Act
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@baekdal
Thomas Baekdal
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Wait what?!?! Big Tech Faces Ban From Favoring Own Services Under EU Rules ... including requirement to share customer data: https://www.bloomberg.com/... This makes no sense. This would be totally illegal under GDPR. (ht @Claeshs) https://twitter.com/...
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@vijayshekhar
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
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This will be a huge win for young tech companies! https://twitter.com/...
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@cybermatron
@cybermatron
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Why so many data protection lawyers have warned that it is not enough to approach this competition issue with purely competition tools. Sharing personal data more widely is not going to solve our future problems. https://twitter.com/...
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@amywebb
Amy Webb
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This is an interesting development. Will influence antitrust outcomes in the US. russels drafts rules to force Big Tech to share data - https://www.ft.com/...