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    Europe's Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here's what that will look like

    by Kelvin Chan Mar 06, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used.

    They're part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act, a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers” — Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance — will have to start following by midnight Wednesday.

    The DMA is the latest in a series of regulations that Europe has passed as a global leader in reining in the dominance of large tech companies. Tech giants have responded by changing some of their long-held ways of doing

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