The European Commission’s New Proposed Regulations Want to Re-Engineer Your Smartphone

The European Commission’s New Proposed Regulations Want to Re-Engineer Your Smartphone

The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission’s Draft Measures (DMs) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) now threaten its integrity. Apple’s public response to the Commission’s Alphabet proceeding warns that these measures constitute a “large-scale security and privacy experiment” conducted on European users, challenging hardware and software engineering paradigms that have taken years to develop.…