{"id":5599,"date":"2022-05-02T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/eu-claims-apple-breaking-competition-law-over-contactless-payments\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:38:38","slug":"eu-claims-apple-breaking-competition-law-over-contactless-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/eu-claims-apple-breaking-competition-law-over-contactless-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"EU claims Apple breaking competition law over contactless payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company accused of abusing market position to limit rivals\u2019 access to technology required for tap-and-go transactions<\/p>\n<p>EU regulators have charged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/apple\">Apple<\/a> with breaking competition law by limiting rivals\u2019 access to technology that is key to making contactless payments, unfairly benefiting its own Apple Pay service.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said on Monday that Apple \u201csets the rules\u201d on its closed platform and expressed concern that it has been limiting access to technology called near field communication (NFC), which rivals need for tap-and-go payments to be made in stores using mobile wallets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/02\/apple-pay-contactless-payments-eu-competition-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/82a9a0b65df1b4681af95a1d0df83078e5b2ce19\/0_1000_7155_4293\/master\/7155.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7422137336b1cb1850b2afa1c0e127f4\" title=\"EU claims Apple breaking competition law over contactless payments\" \/>Company accused of abusing market position to limit rivals\u2019 access to technology required for tap-and-go transactions<br \/>\nEU regulators have charged Apple with breaking competition law by limiting rivals\u2019 access to technology that is key to making contactless payments, unfairly benefiting its own Apple Pay service.<br \/>\nThe European Commission said on Monday that Apple \u201csets the rules\u201d on its closed platform and expressed concern that it has been limiting access to technology called near field communication (NFC), which rivals need for tap-and-go payments to be made in stores using mobile wallets. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company accused of abusing market position to limit rivals\u2019 access to technology required for tap-and-go transactions EU regulators have charged Apple with breaking competition law by limiting rivals\u2019 access to technology that is key to making contactless payments, unfairly benefiting its own Apple Pay service. The European Commission said on Monday that Apple \u201csets the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/eu-claims-apple-breaking-competition-law-over-contactless-payments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU claims Apple breaking competition law over contactless payments<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5600,"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\/5599"}],"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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}