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The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases (apnews.com)
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European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.

The commission, which is the EU’s executive arm, also fined Meta Platforms 200 million euros because it forced Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.

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[–] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The important part of these are the "do, don't" orders of business conduct. Then on top small fine. Hence it isn't merely cost of doing business. The real stinger is "you can't offer choice of tracking or pay up. You must offer free choice to decline for consent based operations".

If they ignore the "do's and dont's" compliance order, then the big fines come out.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Name one.