Italy probes Apple over app market dominance

Italy’s antitrust regulator said Thursday 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,” the competition watchdog said in a statement.

It said it was also concerned third-party developers and advertisers were “disadvantaged in terms of the quality of the data made available by Apple”.