Apple, Google and Meta probed by EU under new digital law

European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: 'We suspect that the suggested solutions put forward by the three companies do not fully comply with the Digital Markets Act.'

Apple, Google, and Facebook-owner Meta face the risk of potentially hefty fines as the European Union opened a full-blown investigation into the firms’ compliance with strict new laws reining in the power of Big Tech.

The European Commission said that Apple and Google’s app store rules will be targeted in the first probes under the new Digital Markets Act, or DMA, how Google search results might unfairly preference its own services and how Apple may make it harder for users to choose alternatives to its Safari browser. The three tech giants directly employ 12,000 people in Ireland.