Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
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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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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Thanks to BEUC for organising a great symposium yesterday on digital competition reform. This was my five-minute introduction to interoperability.
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I enjoyed writing this short (8.5pp + refs) primer on disinformation. Hopefully it will be useful to those coming fresh to the subject, or updating their knowledge.
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Thanks to Tilburg’s Global Data Justice project for the invitation to speak on their CPDP panel this week to launch their excellent new report, Digital disruption or crisis capitalism? I used the case of England’s contact-tracing app to further illuminate some elements of the report, based on a book chapter of mine which should be published this autumn.
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Here are the provisions of the EU’s Digital Markets Act relating to interoperability obligations for large “gatekeeper” firms, from the final text!
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The EU and US announced on 25 March they have “agreed in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework”. But there is little in the announcement of the “political”/“in principle” agreement suggesting the EU Court of Justice’s high standards will be met.
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