How tech corporations subvert the EU's new digital laws - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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When the DSA and DMA were passed in 2022, major tech industry associations praised the new laws as significant achievements.

As the EU’s new flagship tech laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, are coming into full application, Big Tech is working hard to shoot them down. As of today, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes fully applicable, following its counterpart the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 17 February.

However, as the EU’s new tech laws are coming into full application, tech corporations like Apple, Amazon, Meta and TikTok are already undermining them at every turn. To subvert these new regulations, tech corporations have filed a number of lawsuits against the European Commission and attempted to weaken the rules with malicious compliance that protects their profits at the expense of their users.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Oh yeah, the thing with Apple, 3rd party stores and sideloading is a good example of this. Whenever the EU announced it everyone jumped into conclusions saying there would be sideloading while I kept saying they could get away with a few tweaks to the Enterprise program just to get bashed by people.

    Now here we are today with the new iOS and there’s no real sideloading for anyone, simply a special Enterprise certificate that allows for 3rd party stores, Apple still having to vet every single application that goes into those stores an attempt at retaliation that almost lead to the end of PWAs (that are commonly used to get around Apple’s bullshit policies).