{"id":140235,"date":"2021-04-28T06:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T06:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2021-04-28T06:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T06:43:18","slug":"regulation-may-be-required-for-app-stores-accc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/28\/regulation-may-be-required-for-app-stores-accc\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation \u2018may be required\u2019 for app stores: ACCC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The competition watchdog<\/strong> has fired a warning shot at Google and Apple, telling the tech giants to clean up their app stores now or face regulation which will make them do so.<\/p>\n The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has spent the last seven months investigating the notoriously murky app stores of Google and Apple, finding there are “significant issues which warrant attention\u201d.<\/p>\n According to the ACCC, Google and Apple need to be more transparent about how they promote apps, offer consumers the ability to change and remove preinstalled or default apps, ensure they do not use information collected about third party apps to advantage their own, and reconsider payment systems that exclude competitors.<\/p>\n Apple and Google could also \u201cdo more\u201d to prevent and remove malicious apps from their stores, according to the regulator, which said the two US giants now have a clear “window of opportunity” to address the issues.<\/p>\n