EU tech rules should only target dominant companies, EU lawmaker says

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Draft rules aimed at reining in the power of Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc unit Google, Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc should only target these U.S.

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike BlakeShare this contentBRUSSELS: tech giants, a leading EU lawmaker said, signalling a tougher stand than EU antitrust regulators.

"The DMA should be clearly targeted to those platforms that play an unquestionable role as gatekeepers due to their size and their impact on the internal market," he wrote in his report."To this end, it is appropriate to increase the quantitative thresholds and to add ... that they are providers of not only one but, at least, two core platform services," Schwab said.

 

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