Spotify accuses Apple of scare tactics over new EU competition rules

Spotify’s Avery Gardiner said the notion that security and privacy could only come from Apple’s own App Store was just not true (PA)

Spotify has accused Apple of trying to “scare everybody about privacy and security” over its complaints about complying with new EU competition laws.

The music streaming platform’s global director of competition policy said Apple’s warnings about having to make the iPhone less secure in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) equated to the saying “the only way to have privacy and security is to allow a monopolist to continue to abuse monopoly power”.