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EUROPE’S DIGITAL MARKETS ACT IS FORCING TECH GIANTS TO MAKE CHANGES. HERE’S WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE

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.

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 - sometimes reluctantly - by changing some of their long-held ways

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