'US government officials are following in the European Union’s footsteps by attempting to set the rules for how American technology companies operate,' Shane Tews writes.
). By mandating platform shifts through regulation rather than the free market, both the EU’s DMA and U.S. legislative efforts are looking to rewire the underlying computing infrastructure and software design through regulatory policy, not true innovation.
This brings a level of friction into the software application process that has been part of the code-design-review practice, which helps improve the quality and security of any software design. Unlike their Senate colleagues, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kat Cammack recognize that legislation affecting consumer security measures needs to be a collaborative effort and thus have introduced theto help protect consumer data and cybersecurity concerns.
However, legislation such as the Senate’s AICOA and OAMA, along with the DMA, would do the opposite of what has been recommended by cybersecurity experts. These bills want to mandate that current app-store-review practices—such as privacy tools and processes put in place to mitigate security risks like malware applications or dark web cyber tools—be dismantled in the name of competition.
There are plenty of hostile and malicious actors in the world today searching constantly for new ways to access consumers’ devices, data, and homes. And it seems a particularly bad time to make our critical digital infrastructure more vulnerable by deterring our most important platforms from protecting their own systems and users.
Regarding the software security problem, the Biden administration called out this challenge in their recently released
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