On its face, the EU DMA is meant to stop monopolies from abusing their market position, but Meta appears to be abusing this legislation in an attempt to gather unprecedented access to iPhone user data.

On its face, the EU DMA is meant to stop monopolies from abusing their market position, but Meta appears to be abusing this legislation in an attempt to gather unprecedented access to iPhone user data.

    • SalvoEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      This is (one of the reasons) why Apple have been so defensive about their ecosystem.

      They have slowly been building their security to protect their customers from bad actors, as the bad actors have been slowing finding ways to exploit people.

      In early versions of iOS, there was little to no security, all apps had unfettered access, Apple started restricting access to more and more of the users data, and the arms race began.

      Now the bad actors have tricked legislators into violating user security in favour of their scams and data mining reselling.