Apple fined €150M over antitrust regarding App Tracking Transparency in France

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/03/31/apple-150-million-fine-app-tracking-transparency/
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Apple mis à l’amende de 150M€ en France au sujet de l’abus de position dominante sur la fonctionnalité de suivi publicitaire.

https://www.igen.fr/ios/2025/03/encadrement-du-pistage-apple-ecope-dune-amende-de-150-millions-deuros-pour-abus-de-position-dominante-149291

Apple fined €150 million: ATT framework ruled anticompetitive https://ppc.land/apple-fined-eu150-million-att-framework-ruled-anticompetitive/ #Apple #AppTrackingTransparency #TechNews #Antitrust #Privacy

Apple fined €150 million: ATT framework ruled anticompetitive: Apple's App Tracking Transparency approach deemed disproportionate and harmful to smaller publishers. https://ppc.land/apple-fined-eu150-million-att-framework-ruled-anticompetitive/ #Apple #AppTrackingTransparency #TechNews #Antitrust #Privacy

Associated Press: European Union lays out how Apple must open its tech up to competitors under bloc’s digital rules. “In its legally binding decision, the commission detailed measures that the iPhone maker has to take involving nine connectivity features for its iOS operating system. The measures will give device and app makers better access to iPhone features that work with devices.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/associated-press-european-union-lays-out-how-apple-must-open-its-tech-up-to-competitors-under-blocs-digital-rules/

TikTok, tariffs, and trials: everything happening in tech’s chaotic April https://www.theverge.com/policy/638779/tariffs-tiktok-ban-meta-google-antitrust-trial-april-trump #Regulation #Antitrust #Creators #Politics #Transpo #Google #Policy #TikTok #Cars #Meta #Tech

Apple è stata multata in Francia per 150 milioni di euro per la funzionalità App Tracking Transparency, ritenuta dannosa per la concorrenza. L'antitrust francese accusa Apple di abuso di posizione dominante, con un'implementazione vista come non neutrale. #Apple #ATT #Francia #Antitrust #Privacy

#Apple receives #antitrust fine in #France for “ask app not to track” framework: After preliminary findings in Germany, #France went a step further in finding that #Apple broke the law. https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/apple-receives-antitrust-fine-in-france-for-ask-app-not-to-track-framework/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

Not looking good for Mozilla neither. Gravity does the rest.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/apple-barred-from-google-antitrust-trial-putting-20-billion-search-deal-on-the-line/

L'UE comminerà multe moderate ad Apple e Meta per violazioni del Digital Markets Act. Apple per regole App Store, Meta per modello "paga o acconsenti". Le sanzioni contenute per non inasprire i rapporti con gli USA. #Apple #Meta #EU #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #Antitrust #Fines

"Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped nine lawsuits that it had brought on behalf of consumers.

The actions effectively freed major financial firms like Capital One and the mortgage giant Rocket Homes from the threat of consequences for their alleged significant wrongdoing, shocking consumer advocates and raising questions about the future of America’s consumer watchdog. For their part, when the cases were dropped, the companies lauded the decisions, with a bank spokesperson welcoming the dismissal of the case, “which we strongly disputed,” and Rocket Homes calling the suit an “empty claim.”

But the administration’s new hands-off approach to enforcement at the CFPB extends far beyond those public lawsuits. Behind the scenes, dozens of ongoing investigations into alleged corporate malfeasance are now frozen at the agency, potentially denying accountability and financial relief for untold numbers of consumers, a ProPublica investigation has found.

Under a stop-work order issued by the agency’s new leaders, CFPB investigators have been unable to press forward on probes into companies whose products and services are used by tens of millions of Americans, including Carvana, the online used-car retailer; Mr. Cooper, one of the country’s largest mortgage servicers; and CareCredit, a leader in medical credit cards, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matters."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight

The #DOJ is considering merging the lead agencies enforcing #drug & #gun laws in a major shakeup as it moves to follow #Trump's instructions to sharply *streamline* the govt.

In addition to merging the Drug Enforcement Agency #DEA & Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives #ATF, DOJ leaders are considering eliminating field offices that handle #antitrust & #environmental cases, according to a March 25 memo seen by Reuters.

#law #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-considers-merging-dea-atf-major-wave-cuts-memo-shows-2025-03-27

Das US-Justizministerium verschärft seine Klage gegen Google: Vorgeworfen werden monopolistische Praktiken zur Sicherung der Marktdominanz. Gefordert wird der Verkauf von Chrome & ggf. Android sowie das Verbot von Exklusivverträgen für die Standardsuchmaschine. Anhörungen starten im April. #Antitrust #Google

"Secret" complaints are about as secret as a cat in a paper bag Qualcomm's filing antitrust charges against Arm in three jurisdictions over licensing restrictions. Like watching tech giants play "Mom said no, so I'm telling Dad!" on a global scale #Tech #Antitrust

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/0051246/qualcomm-launches-global-antitrust-campaign-against-arm

L'UE non multerà Apple per il mancato adeguamento alle norme antitrust sui browser iPhone Modifiche ritenute insufficienti: Safari rimane default e WebKit obbligatorio per terze parti. Multa potenziale evitata (fino al 10% del fatturato globale). #Apple #UE #Antitrust #TechNews

Looks like Apple forgot that "fashionably late" doesn't work in court! After missing the deadline by 33 days, they're locked out of Google's antitrust trial - potentially jeopardizing their $20B/year "friendship" where Google pays to be Safari's default search engine. Talk about an expensive missed calendar notification! #BigTech #AntiTrust

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/1411217/apple-barred-from-google-antitrust-trial-20-billion-search-deal-at-risk

MediaPost: Apple Can’t Intervene In Battle Over Google Search, Court Confirms. “Siding against Apple, a federal appellate court ruled that the company waited too long to seek to intervene in an upcoming antitrust hearing that could end its long-standing search and revenue-sharing partnership with Google.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/mediapost-apple-cant-intervene-in-battle-over-google-search-court-confirms/