Google’s parent company Alphabet has been hit with a complaint by five privacy advocacy groups over potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) related to restricting users’ ability to switch between different software applications.
European Digital Rights, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. Homo Digitalis and ARTICLE 19 have asked the European Commission to open an investigation into Alphabet as they claim that Android’s core platform service is designed in a way to “deliberately hide from end users the possibility to even disable the pre-installed gatekeeper apps”.
