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Big Tech Faces Ban From Favoring Own Services Under EU Rules

  • Gatekeeper platforms could also have to share data with rivals
  • EU to unveil regulatory proposal for platforms in December
A visitor passes a sign featuring Google Inc.'s logo inside their U.K. headquarters at Six St Pan     cras Square in London.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Big tech firms could be banned from preferencing their own services in search rankings or exclusively pre-installing their own applications on devices, under new regulations planned by the European Union.

As part of the EU’s Digital Services Act, platforms with power to control could also have to share customer data with business rivals, according to internal draft documents obtained by Bloomberg.