The UK’s competition watchdog is set to scrutinize Big Tech companies this year when it gains new powers independent of the EU, said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Last month, the CMA opened an investigation into Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” project, to determine whether the project will distort competition. Coscelli said that he expects more investigations to come. “We are actively scanning the players, the complaints we have received, the cases that others are doing, what could be done in parallel with others, where are the gaps in the work the European Commission is doing,” Coscelli told the Financial Times. “We certainly expect to open more cases during the course of this year,” he added. The UK government announced last November that a dedicated Digital Markets Unit (DMU) will be set up within the CMA to regulate the behaviour of market-dominating online platforms and create more competition, giving smaller businesses and news outlets …