Britain to make big tech give rivals access to data under new plans

Britain’s competition regulator plans to make big tech companies give their rivals greater access to data and limit them from promoting their own products under new powers it is due to receive from the government, it said on Thursday.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has bolstered its oversight of Big Tech firms like Facebook owner Meta , Google parent Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.

Its willingness to take them on was made clear last year when it intervened in Microsoft’s purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, and again more recently when it said it was reviewing the U.S. giant’s deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.