\n
![](\"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/meta_reuters_1_1685596797773.jpg\")
<\/p>\n [ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n
Facebook<\/a> owner Meta<\/a>‘s new Threads<\/a> app, meant to rival Twitter<\/a>, will not be available in the European Union when it launches Thursday because of regulatory concerns, a source close to the company said.<\/p>\n The app is seen as the biggest challenge yet to Twitter since the takeover by Elon Musk sent the social media platform, hugely popular with politicians and celebrities, into chaos.<\/p>\n A source close to Meta said Wednesday that the tech giant was holding back from a Threads release in the EU’s 27 countries as it sought clarity on the bloc’s Digital Markets Act<\/a> that will come into full force next year.<\/p>\n The DMA is a landmark law that sets strict rules for the internet’s biggest companies in Europe.<\/p>\n One of those regulations prohibits platforms from sharing data across different services. It also restricts companies directing platform users to their own products.<\/p>\n The description of Threads on app stores in the United States indicated that a user’s personal data, including contact and geolocation information, will be collected and used for advertising purposes.<\/p>\n Meta has already run afoul of EU<\/a> rules for its attempts to use data from WhatsApp<\/a> to strengthen Instagram and Facebook, something European regulators forbade it from doing.<\/p>\n A spokesman for Ireland’s Data Protection Commission told the Irish Independent that Meta confirmed that it would not be releasing the app in Europe “at this point”.<\/p>\n Ireland is home to Meta’s EU headquarters, and the national regulator is in charge of oversight of the company in Europe.<\/p>\n Contacted by AFP, Meta did not immediately comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meta was one of seven companies, including Amazon<\/a> and Apple<\/a>, that informed the EU on Tuesday that they meet the threshold to come under the new rules when they come into force next year.<\/p>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Facebook owner Meta‘s new Threads app, meant to rival Twitter, will not be available in the European Union when it launches Thursday because of regulatory concerns, a source close to the company said. The app is seen as the biggest challenge yet to Twitter since the takeover by Elon Musk sent the social media … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Affiliate links may be automatically generated – see our ethics statement<\/a> for details.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"