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BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – Apple Inc chief Tim Cook on Wednesday criticized proposed European rules aimed at limiting the power of US tech giants, saying they could pose security and privacy risks to iPhones.
In his first public comments on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) proposed by EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, Cook said parts were good but others were not. He said he feared the draft rules could lead to more installs of apps that don’t come via the Apple App Store, or “sideload”.
said the Apple CEO, speaking remotely, at VivaTech, France’s largest tech conference.
“So this will be a definitive way to get apps on the iPhone,” he said. “It will destroy iPhone security, a lot of the privacy initiatives we’ve included in the App Store or privacy snooping stickers and app tracking transparency,” he added.
Earlier this month, EU lawmaker Andreas Schwab, who is leading the European Parliament’s scrutiny of the draft rules, said he wanted to strengthen the legislation and narrow it to only big companies like Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Apple and Facebook (FB.O). Read more
Cook said Apple would take part in the discussion and try to find a way forward.
(Additional reporting by Fu Yun-chi in Brussels and Matthew Rosmin in Paris;
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