Italy’s antitrust regulator says it has opened an investigation into tech giant Apple for allegedly abusing a dominant position in the apps market.
The Silicon Valley titan has adopted a more restrictive privacy policy for third-party app developers than it applies to itself.
It says it was also concerned third-party developers and advertisers were disadvantaged in terms of the quality of the data made available by Apple.
It added that the alleged discriminatory conduct could cause a drop in advertising revenues of third-party advertisers and prevent competitors from entering or remaining in the app development and distribution market, benefiting Apple’s own apps.