EU’s digital diplomat to Silicon Valley braces for tech lawsuits

The largest tech companies have complained that the DMA and DSA are vaguely written and overly burdensome, saying that the laws lays out a series of “do’s” and “don’ts” without much explanation around how they should implement the changes. — Reuters

The European Union is bracing for an onslaught of lawsuits from the largest tech companies – Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc, Meta Platforms Inc and Apple Inc – over incoming rules that will change how the industry operates, said the head of the region’s new San Francisco outpost.

“We’re not naïve,” Gerard de Graaf, a top EU official focused on regulations for digital platforms, told Bloomberg News in his first interview with a US media outlet since opening the EU’s office in the heart of Silicon Valley last month. “There will be litigation.”