by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) has been undertaking a long-running sector study of the German messenger (and video services) market, and today has published its final report. I wanted to add a few comments to elements of the report, because without a close reading of the DMA’s provisions it is easy to draw incorrect assumptions about implications of the BKA’s conclusions.
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Certain themes keep coming up in discussions of “AI”/machine learning I’ve written about before. To make it easier to refer to them, I’ve just published two new documents.
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The UK’s “National Cyber [🤢] Force” has for the first time published detailed information about its work. But how can such a clandestine agency get genuinely independent advice?
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This is often a critique of data protection as a mechanism for AI regulation. But especially when combined with human rights and specific anti-discrimination law, how much of a gap does that leave?
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Whatever the wisdom of individual policy proposals in this new Tony Blair/William Hague-helmed report, its greatest failing to me is that it proposes redesigning the entire British state on a greater scale than the once-in-two-centuries civil service reforms of the 19th century which still largely prevail. In a rather scattergun manner…
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In July 2022, Twitter had 61.9m users reachable by advertisers in the 27 EU member states — passing the 45m user hurdle for designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, and potentially a DMA gatekeeper.
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German minister: “The EU must put Twitter under direct supervision of the European Commission! I have written to the relevant Commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton today asking them to do so. This can stop the anti-competitive behaviour of Elon Musk on Twitter.”
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The new US Executive Order does not change the fact the US authorities insist on carrying out indiscriminate, untargeted mass surveillance, also of EU persons and EU governmental and non-governmental entities, by means of bulk collection of data, without independent substantive judicial oversight or effective redress.
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Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is providing a great large-scale natural experiment on a number of aspects of interoperability, as tens of thousands of users at least partially switch to alternative services, particularly in the interoperable Fediverse. Can we turn the migration into a stampede?
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I enjoyed listening to Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke’s new book on competition policy and innovation more than I expected. How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back is beautifully written and full of zingers.
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