{"id":337327,"date":"2025-12-10T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337327\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:25:08","slug":"japan-law-opening-phone-app-stores-to-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337327\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Japanese law is going into effect that could loosen the dominance of tech giants over smartphone services. It aims to bring users greater choice for app stores and more.<\/p>\n<p>Starting December 18, firms like Apple and Google will be prohibited from blocking third party app stores on iPhone and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>The law also aims to loosen their grip on web browsers and search. The firms will now be required to give first-time users multiple choices for default services. This also applies when people update their operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Trade Commission says the changes will improve convenience by encouraging new market entrants.<\/p>\n<p>But some public comments released by the commission expressed concern that the legislation could undermine user security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Japanese law is going into effect that could loosen the dominance of tech giants over smartphone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5806,57174,49,48,2454,57175,190,44,27462,57177,57178,57179,57176,7313,40025,57180,64,61,3275],"class_list":["post-337327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}