UK to make Big Tech give rivals access to data under new plans


FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator plans to make big tech companies give their rivals greater access to data and limit them from promoting their own products under new powers it is due to receive from the government, it said on Thursday.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has bolstered its oversight of Big Tech firms like Facebook owner Meta, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.

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