EU questions Apple, Google and Microsoft about their scam prevention efforts

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The European Union has queried Apple, Google and Microsoft on their efforts to prevent online scams. There is a fourth company under scrutiny.

Booking Holding, which is a Europe based company, and owns travel sites, is also being investigated.

So, this is not an antitrust thing. What's it about this time? Well, the EU wants to ensure that users are protected against online scams, financial fraud, and other security risks that one might encounter online.

According to The Verge, a report by The Financial Times revealed that EU regulators are asking the companies to hand overt details about their methods to combat these threats, as part of the Digital Services Act. Microsoft Bing and Google Search will come under the scanner for fake search results. How about the quality of the results, huh? Or lack thereof?

The EU will evaluate how Apple and Google are handling fraud applications like fake banking apps on their app stores. Let's see now, that shouldn't be a problem.

Oh, yes! Both the App Store and Play Store are free of fake apps and malware, right? They're totally safe. How many times have we seen reports of malicious apps on both app marketplaces?

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