WASHINGTON: A group of 13 companies urged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to approve a bill that would rein in giant tech companies like Alphabet's Google<\/a> and Meta<\/a>'s Facebook<\/a>.
DuckDuckGo<\/a>, Mozilla<\/a>, Proton<\/a> and other companies that advertise themselves as pro-privacy expressed support for a bill to ban self-preferencing by Big Tech<\/a> platforms like Google and Amazon.com.
A U.S. congressional leader on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar, has spent much of the summer urging the Senate to pass the bill to no avail. Klobuchar, a lead sponsor along with Republican Chuck Grassley, has said she has the 60 votes needed for passage but prospects of it becoming law this year appear to be dimming.
In a letter to Senate and House leadership, the companies said that the big tech firms have used their dominance to steer consumers away from services that offer more privacy protections<\/a>.
\"While more and more Americans are embracing privacy-first technologies, some dominant firms still use their gatekeeper power to limit competition and restrict user choice,\" they wrote in the letter.
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