The European Union wants Apple, Booking, Google and Microsoft to take measures against online financial fraud on their platforms and businesses. This has been confirmed by the REU technological sponsable, Henna Virkkunenal Financial Times.
Virkkunen has assured that the regulatory authorities of the European Union have sent on Tuesday formal requests for information to the four technological mentioned, by virtue of the powers conferred by the Digital Services Law to combat financial scams. In addition, he has shown his concern because more and more online criminal acts are seen, and stressed that they want to make sure online platforms strive enough to detect and prevent the dissemination of illegal content that facilitates them.
This step, which could derive in the future in a formal investigation of its activity in this regard, and in potential fines to the mentioned companies if they do not comply with the norms, has occurred in the midst of a growing controversy between the European Union and the United States by the treatment that the EU supposedly gives to the great American technological technological ones. Thus, President Donald Trump has threatened to take measures, such as the imposition of high tariffs, against countries that consider discriminating against US companies in the technological sector.
For its part, Virkkunen has assured that the commission will be responsible for examining the operations of concrete companies, instead of doing it where they have their headquarters. Among other things, it will examine how they are managing the false Apple and Google applications in their apps, and regulators will be responsible for checking false search results in Google and Microsoft search engines.
On the other hand, the EU wants to have more information about how the European Booking Holdings, and specifically its main subsidiary, Booking.com, based in Amsterdam, is addressing existing problems with false accommodations announced on its platform.
Given these requirements, Google did not want to make statements, while Microsoft and Booking.com have stated that they will collaborate constructively on this issue with the European Commission. Apple, meanwhile, has indicated that it has expanded «various anti -arude initiatives to address these problems, and to protect users«, In addition to commenting that«While the regulator focuses on issuing research threats and counterproductive and wrong fines, we will continue defending security and reliability for our users«.
This step continues to an open investigation against Facebook and Instagram, of Meta, for allegedly breaching several directives of the Digital Services Law. In addition, another against Chinese platforms Shein and Temu is also underway to establish whether they meet the DSA in terms of illegal products management in their respective marketplaces. Almost at the same time, it has been made public that the regulation in EU technology recommends Block great technology of the new financial data sharing system of the region.
