{"id":5143,"date":"2022-03-25T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/eu-agrees-sweeping-new-digital-rules-in-effort-to-curb-big-techs-power\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:36:31","slug":"eu-agrees-sweeping-new-digital-rules-in-effort-to-curb-big-techs-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/eu-agrees-sweeping-new-digital-rules-in-effort-to-curb-big-techs-power\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees sweeping new digital rules in effort to curb big tech\u2019s power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Markets Act seeks to prevent the likes of Google and Facebook parent company Meta from dominating digital markets<\/p>\n<p>The European Union reached an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online \u201cgatekeepers\u201d such as Google and Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials agreed late on Thursday on wording for the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act, part of a long-awaited overhaul of its digital rulebook. The act, which still needs other approvals, seeks to prevent tech giants from dominating digital markets, with the threat of large fines or even the possibility of a company breakup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/25\/european-union-big-tech-googld-facebook-meta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7ec60c8b6288cac49f7e7b8913fac9e594faab5b\/0_80_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=91098d39a3371b85481452c894cf30c2\" title=\"EU agrees sweeping new digital rules in effort to curb big tech\u2019s power\" \/>Digital Markets Act seeks to prevent the likes of Google and Facebook parent company Meta from dominating digital markets<br \/>\nThe European Union reached an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online \u201cgatekeepers\u201d such as Google and Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta.<br \/>\nEU officials agreed late on Thursday on wording for the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act, part of a long-awaited overhaul of its digital rulebook. The act, which still needs other approvals, seeks to prevent tech giants from dominating digital markets, with the threat of large fines or even the possibility of a company breakup. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Markets Act seeks to prevent the likes of Google and Facebook parent company Meta from dominating digital markets The European Union reached an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online \u201cgatekeepers\u201d such as Google and Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta. EU officials agreed late on Thursday on wording for the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/eu-agrees-sweeping-new-digital-rules-in-effort-to-curb-big-techs-power\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU agrees sweeping new digital rules in effort to curb big tech\u2019s power<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}