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Today, we have opened five non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act.

It concerns:
🔹Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play
🔹Alphabet’s self-preferencing in Google Search
🔹Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store
🔹Apple's choice screen for Safari
🔹Meta’s ‘pay or consent model’

More info: europa.eu/!4NF6bV

@EU_Commission I can’t believe I’m saying this but good job – especially “pay or consent” has to be nipped in the bud before it takes hold; it’s basically data extortion.

(And thank you for sharing the news without some silly meme attempt.)

@aral @EU_Commission lots of German news and other websites do the "pay or consent" bit too, I haaaaate it

@sarajw @aral @EU_Commission Journalism isn’t free. Journalists, too, have rent to pay and children to feed. You have a choice to pay with your money or pay with your data, whichever you prefer. Sounds fair to me.

@intermobility @sarajw @EU_Commission Your data or your money! How about my body? Can I pay with my body too? How many page views will fucking the CEO get me?

The only reason folks aren’t more repulsed by this is because they don’t understand that our data is us. If I have enough data about you, and the right algorithms, I can create an approximation of you—a model/simulation/proxy—and I can do whatever I want to it. Your body is protected by human rights law, your proxy isn’t. And it must be.

@aral @sarajw

So you’re saying there shouldn’t be a choice. Your opinion is yours. Fine with me. 🤷

Aral Balkan

@intermobility @sarajw No, I’m saying just like ‘pay with your organs’ is not acceptable, neither is ‘pay with your data’ and that your data should be protected as part of your self under human rights law.

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