The European Commission has announced that iMessage, Apple’s messaging service, and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, will not be subject to stricter regulation under digital platform regulations.

In addition, two additional Microsoft products, the Edge browser and the Microsoft Advertising advertising system, also benefit from this exemption.

The new EU platform law stipulates that large companies, known as gatekeepers, will be subject to stricter regulatory rules. However, these two specific Microsoft products are excluded from that regulation.

The list of companies identified as “gatekeepers” by the European Commission includes Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, ByteDance (TikTok) and Meta (Facebook). These companies are subject to stricter rules.

The complete list includes four social networks (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn), two messaging systems (WhatsApp and Messenger), three operating systems (Android, iOS and Windows), the Google search engine and the Chrome and Safari browsers.

The Commission announced that it had closed four ongoing investigations into these services.

Both Apple and Microsoft have praised the Commission’s decision. An Apple spokesperson said: “We thank the Commission for agreeing with us that iMessage should not be designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).”

For its part, a Microsoft spokesperson said the company will continue to “work with the Commission and the industry at large to ensure that Microsoft’s other designated platforms are fully compliant with the MDL”.

K. Tovar

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The Canadian government announced that Google will pay 100 million Canadian dollars (equivalent to 74 million US dollars) annually as part of an agreement to compensate media outlets for sharing news on their platforms.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge reported that the figure will be adjusted annually for inflation, and the Canadian government reserves the right to review the terms if Google reaches more favorable agreements for media in other countries. .

This agreement arises as a result of the implementation of the Online News Act in Canada, which requires Google and Meta to compensate media for the dissemination of their content on digital platforms.

Despite having been approved in August, the law has not been implemented due to ongoing negotiations between the Canadian government and the technology giants. Both Google and Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) have expressed their opposition by blocking access to news in Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highlighted that this agreement reflects Canada’s commitment to local journalism and to independent journalists who must be compensated for their work. Trudeau also criticized Meta for refusing to compensate the media, accusing the American company of completely abdicating its responsibility to democratic institutions.

Under the agreement, Google will be responsible for determining how it will negotiate with the media about the distribution of funds, in addition to committing to continue offering training programs and digital resources to Canadian information companies.

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The European Commission published this Tuesday a list of digital platforms that must submit to new rules. The social networks Twitter, Facebook, TikTok are included, as well as Google and Amazon.

According to Margrethe Vestager, vice president of the community executive responsible for Competition, the new Digital Services Law establishes a period of four months for both messaging and video platforms, as well as search engines and e-commerce companies to adapt to the Brussels requirements.

The companies on the list, which totals 19, must align “their systems, their resources and their processes to meet the demands of being a very large platform, create an independent compliance system and carry out their first annual risk assessment and report it to the Commission.

The list includes the search engines Google Search and Bing (Microsoft); various platforms owned by Alphabet (Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping and YouTube); Facebook and Instagram; the marketplaces AliExpress (Alibaba), Amazon and Zalando. Likewise, the Apple AppStore, Booking.com, Wikipedia and the social networks LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter.

All these digital platforms must regularly inform users why certain content is recommended to them. For their part, users may report content that violates the regulations.

The CE establishes that ads with sensitive user data, such as ethnic origin or political current, may not be published. Brussels seeks to strengthen data security and the adaptation of the services of these platforms to privacy protocols, particularly for minors.

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As smartphones are increasingly required for all daily activities, cybercriminals are finding new methods to deceive their victims, which are becoming more sophisticated and complex over time.

One of them is called SIM ‘swapping’, a fraud through which cybercriminals try to fraudulently duplicate the SIM card of a user’s device, as mentioned by the Internet Security Office (OSI).

First, the attacker impersonates your identity to get a duplicate of your card. To do this, they contact the telephone operator of the card by phone and provide the victim’s personal information, such as their name and ID number.

Cybercriminals may have collected this data through other social engineering attacks (such as SMS fraud, ‘phishing’ or identity theft from the companies themselves), as well as by digging through your social networks.

Another way of accessing sensitive information of victims is through downloading fraudulent applications on their devices, or after connecting to free or fake Wi-Fi networks.

Once all the data has been collected and the call has been made to the company’s operator, the fraudsters can request a duplicate SIM card. In this way, a new card is created, and the one held by the legal user is invalidated.

Subsequently, the victim is left without telephone service, so that the mobile device will not be able to identify the SIM card, the coverage will not be reflected, nor will it allow the receipt or sending of SMS.

Cybercriminals, on the other hand, will be able to access your personal information and take control of your applications, impersonating your identity on social networks, email accounts or digital banking.

In this way, you can carry out bank transactions as you please since you also control the notifications that these services usually offer to confirm the sending and receipt of money transfers, among other actions.

How to avoid being victim of swapping

Because it is a very common scam and, at the same time, complex to stop, OSI recommends taking a series of measures to avoid being victims of this increasingly widespread fraud.

The first of these is to establish contact with the telephone company in the event of having lost coverage for no apparent reason, such as portability to another operator. In addition, it is convenient to establish two-step authentication, as an additional measure.

To do this, applications intended for your security protection, such as Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator, can be used and downloaded as alternative two-factor methods.

Likewise, it is advisable to update the account recovery options, in case the cybercriminals have managed to access other personal accounts to collect the necessary information to proceed with the ‘swapping’.

Special attention should also be paid to the information that is provided through social networks or public channels, as well as the Privacy Settings options of these platforms.

Finally, it is recommended to exclusively download applications from official stores such as Google Play or the Apple Store, as well as update the access credentials periodically.

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Through the simple message of Jack Dorsey: “Just setting up my twitter“, the microblogging service of great impact today in the political, economic and journalistic sector began a trajectory of 15 years. Now it celebrates its anniversary with the large family that accompanies it on the web.

With more than 190 million users per day, Twitter has stood as a key player in social networks and although its popularity has led the platform to be involved in numerous controversies, the social impact has been outstanding since its creation.

In January, for instance, the platform decided to delete the account of the then president of the United States, Donald Trump. It was one of his main communication tools. And he accumulated 88 million followers.

Faced with such action, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his position, although he admitted that such decision constituted “failure” and that it represented a “dangerous” precedent.

This type of actions has generated applause from users as well as criticism, highlighting the social network as an example for other platforms for showing balance and neutrality, defense of freedom of expression and moderation.

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