EU denies pausing action against Apple and others ahead of new US presidency

EU denies pausing action against Apple and others ahead of new US presidency



by ControlCAD

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  1. > The European Union has denied a report that it has paused action against Apple and other US tech giants in the light of anticipated pressure from the incoming US president.

    > The report claims that the EU is “reassessing” antitrust investigations of Apple, Meta, and Google and that all decisions and fines will be paused until this process is complete.

    > Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said to have called the president-elect on Friday to complain about antitrust and privacy violation fines levied against them.

    > Brussels is reassessing its investigations of tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, just as the US companies urge president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against what they characterise as overzealous EU enforcement […]

    > All decisions and potential fines will be paused while the review is completed, but technical work on the cases will continue, the officials said.

    > One of the sources is described as “a senior EU diplomat” who said that political pressure means a lot of uncertainty over how investigations will proceed.

    > Apple is one of the companies which has already faced EU action forcing it to permit third-party app stores, and it is now under pressure to permit other companies to have greater access to features currently limited to Apple products.

    > This includes the fast-pairing system reserved for AirPods, with other companies seeking access to this for their own headphones and other Bluetooth devices. Meta is seeking access for its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses.

    > However, the EU denied the report, stating that “there is no such review taking place” and instead there are simply routine meetings to assess the generate state of its ongoing investigations.

  3. EU doing the dirty work the US should be doing on their own companies. Hopefully, the EU will press through. That would be a big win for humanity and a huge loss for monopolists.

  4. If “Yes, Minister!” has taught me anything then there is precious little difference between “paused” and “continuing as normal…”

  5. I hope Europe will force all media and social media companies to make their algorithms available to be monitored in real time, independently, which would sort it all out. Or open source.

    Degenerate billionaires like musk (twitter) would quickly lose interest along with totalitarian dictatorships like china (TikTok) and Russia (maga bots being promoted by algos)

    It might even create the opportunity for home grown alternative platforms. India is a great example of success in this area since they banned TikTok and other terrible Chinese apps.

  8. The EU are very much on the move on this matter. It wont help to complain to Orange. The EU has been the singel most influencial political party to make Social media companies adjusting to both antitrust things and also alghoritm decency for those companies globaly as it is hard and expensive to have diffrent standards globaly and the US cares less. If the American companies wants access to the EU market they better comply. 500 million in the developed world would be a serious blow to them.
    If anything would happen on that front it would be more likely that the EU would give back on Donnys tariff talk and actually target such companies which would hurt the US the most. Problably wont happend though as Trump will back down. Else Zuckerberg will know the hard way.

  9. oh ffs, I didn’t know that Vestager stepped down. it’s a big blow ☹️

  11. Presidency should have nothing to do with punishing crappy practices of Apple
    (Crapple)

    Soldering RAM onto mainboards in Macbooks, generating lots of e-waste should be dealt with by Ministry of Ecology, not president of USA

    POTUS has other responsibilities

  12. I would be a lot happier if the EU actually had a software industry………

  13. Well the USA stepped in and stopped EU companies from selling cars with fake diesel emission software……..

  14. As an American, I’m sorry we don’t want this drama our president elect is starting😭

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