Topic: Digital Markets Act

The EU’s Digital Markets Act sets rules for the handful of “gatekeeper” platforms Brussels has designated, forcing them to open up app stores, messaging, and search defaults. Framed as competition policy, it also gives European regulators standing leverage over how the world’s largest tech firms are built, and its interoperability demands for messaging apps have raised real questions about whether end-to-end encryption can survive them. We cover the enforcement, the compliance changes users actually feel, and where competition rules start to shade into control.