WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A gaggle of 13 firms urged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to approve a invoice that will rein in large tech firms like Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Fb.
DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Proton and different firms that publicize themselves as pro-privacy expressed assist for a invoice to ban self-preferencing by Huge Tech platforms like Google and Amazon.com.
A U.S. congressional chief on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar, has spent a lot of the summer season urging the Senate to go the invoice to no avail. Klobuchar, a lead sponsor together with Republican Chuck Grassley, has stated she has the 60 votes wanted for passage however prospects of it turning into legislation this 12 months seem like dimming.
In a letter to Senate and Home management, the businesses stated that the massive tech companies have used their dominance to steer shoppers away from providers that supply extra privateness protections.
“Whereas increasingly People are embracing privacy-first applied sciences, some dominant companies nonetheless use their gatekeeper energy to restrict competitors and prohibit consumer alternative,” they wrote within the letter.
Reporting by Diane Bartz; Enhancing by Cynthia Osterman
