EU rejects Apple’s call to scrap digital markets act

The European Union firmly rejected Apple’s demand to repeal its landmark Digital Markets Act on Thursday, dismissing the tech giant’s claims that the regulations compromise user security and calling for wholesale changes to enforcement.

The European Commission said it had “absolutely no intention” to abandon the law after Apple submitted a formal request for the DMA to be “repealed while a more appropriate fit for purpose legislative instrument is put in place.” EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier said the commission was “not surprised” by Apple’s move, noting the company “has simply contested every little bit of the DMA since its entry into application.”