The Commission said on Tuesday that it expects US tech companies to apply the “same procedures” that EU authorities do when handling “market-sensitive information”, including not disclosing the personal data of EU officials working on the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The remarks follow letters sent late on Monday by the US House Judiciary Committee to ten US tech companies, including Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon, in which the body led by MAGA lawmaker Jim Jordan demanded to see communications between the tech giants and so-called “foreign censors” – including information sent via private messaging channels.

The EU’s tech spokesperson, Thomas Regnier, said that “any substantial information” exchanged between EU officials working on digital laws such as the DSA and Digital Markets Act and regulated tech companies “is shared via official channels”, meaning via letters and email exchanges.

The letter's central argument is that sovereignty must be defined by control, not by whether a provider merely has an EU presence. That means effective ownership of technology and protection from extraterritorial laws like the US CLOUD Act, which can compel American tech companies to provide data to US authorities, including data stored overseas, subject to legal process.

Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi’s lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi’s lawyers for “mak[ing] up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case.”