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Paris, France—The European Union warned Apple on Monday that its App Store is breaching its digital competition rules, placing the iPhone maker at risk of billions of dollars in fines.
Among big tech firms, only Google has faced a bigger single antitrust fine—more than four billion euros in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to promote its search engine. The Irish regulator handed TikTok a 345-million-euro penalty for mishandling children’s data last September just months after it hit Meta with a record fine of 1.2 billion euros for illegally transferring personal data between Europe and the United States.
But EU judges overturned the decision saying there was no evidence the company had broken the rules, a decision the commission has been trying to reverse ever since. Already the bloc has begun to show how the DSA might be applied, opening probes on Facebook and Instagram for failing to tackle election-related disinformation.
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