{"id":40322,"date":"2023-08-11T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40322"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:33:57","slug":"unraveling-the-digital-markets-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling the Digital Markets Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

iA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Facebook introduced Threads on July 5th, they excluded Europe due to non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU regulation effective since May 2, 2023. The question arises: Did the DMA function as intended, or were Europeans penalized by flawed legislation?<\/p>

To comprehend the DMA’s relevance to us as an independent software company, we read and analyzed it from beginning to end. Our investigation aimed to determine if the criticisms, portraying EU laws as inefficient and uninformed, were justified.<\/p>

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To prevent gatekeepers from unfairly benefitting from their dual role, it is necessary to ensure that they do not use any aggregated or non-aggregated data, which could include anonymised and personal data that is not publicly available to provide similar services to those of their business users. That obligation should apply to the gatekeeper as a whole, including but not limited to its business unit that competes with the business users of a core platform service.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

To ensure contestability, the gatekeeper should furthermore allow the third-party software applications or software application stores to prompt the end user to decide whether that service should become the default and enable that change to be carried out easily<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The gatekeepers should, therefore, be required to ensure, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features that are available or used in the provision of its own complementary and supporting services and hardware.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The gatekeeper shall not require end users to use, or business users to use, to offer, or to interoperate with, an identification service, a web browser engine or a payment service, or technical services that support the provision of payment services, such as payment systems for in-app purchases, of that gatekeeper in the context of services provided by the business users using that gatekeeper’s core platform services.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/blockquote>\n

Previously:<\/p>\n