The European Commission is investigating whether Apple, Alphabet and Meta comply with the new EU competition law

The European Commission has opened an investigation into this Apple, alphabet (parent company of Google) and Target (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) because it suspects that they are not complying with the Digital Markets Act, the new antitrust rule with which Brussels wants to control the market power of the major platforms.

In concrete terms, he believes that Apple and Alphabet have not taken effective measures to allow mobile application developers to freely communicate with their customers and offer them offers outside the app stores of these two companies (the App Store and Google Play) and without having to pay them a fee for doing so .

Consider that too Alphabet continues to prioritize its own search services on Google’s search engine over those of its competitors, for example on ‘Google Shopping’, ‘Google Flights’ and ‘Google Hotels’.

The Commission also questions the changes it has made Manzana To comply with regulations, they allow users to easily uninstall the mobile applications that the company installs on their devices by default, so they can look for alternatives, for example to the Safari browser.

To GoalBrussels is examining the payment alternative it offers to its customers who do not want the company to combine their personal data between its different platforms, as it considers that it does not offer them a real alternative to guarantee their privacy.

Brussels plans to… investigation within twelve months. If, after completing the investigation, their suspicions are confirmed, Brussels will explain to them what measures they need to take or what the Commission itself will take, which could mean a fine of 10% of their global turnover or 20% if they repeatedly break the regulations.