Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
The annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is undoubtedly the glitziest, most gigantic, shiniest exhibition I’ve ever been to. This years’ featured a panel from the Coalition on Open Digital Ecosystems featuring Google, Samsung and me!
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Apropos the UK’s apparent order to Apple to enable surveillance of its end-to-end-encrypted iCloud data, Advanced Data Protection (ADP): someone
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Who should win? In one corner, the butterfly of Bluesky… in another, the heavyweight Mastodon… AND THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT HAS ENTERED THE RING! SENSATIONAL!
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With my old friend and colleague Prof. Chris Marsden, we have just responded to the Australian Treasury’s consultation on creating a Digital Markets Act-like ex ante competition regulation regime. We have focused in particular on the possibilities of interoperability mandates, and on lessons learned so far from the EU’s experience with the DMA.
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It’s an exciting day for interoperability in the EU! Civil society and free software developers have published their responses to the European Commission consultation on measures Apple will be required to take to make it easier for users to connect other companies’ devices to their iPhones.
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Tools to bridge and otherwise help Mastodon and Bluesky work together are slowly reducing some of the obstacles to replacing X/Twitter.
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The NYT headline (Did Apple just kill social apps?) is over-the-top, but a reminder of the impact Big Tech firms can have on entire market sectors with their product decisions — and why the EU was right to legislate rules for fairness and contestability in the Digital Markets Act. Indeed, further interventions might be necessary, like mandating privacy-protective friend-connecting services.
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Part A of Mario Draghi’s report for the EU on “competitiveness” reform was published this morning. In one sentence, he concludes: “Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies.”
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Brazilian supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes’ sweeping order last night blocking access to X/Twitter is a foretaste of action by other courts and governments around the world. They will no doubt be watching closely.
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More excitement as the world cleans up after Friday’s global IT chaos, caused directly by poor CrowdStrike testing processes and marking its software as essential to Windows booting — but indirectly by Microsoft allowing inadequately tested/sandboxed code to run in “kernel” mode on PCs, where it can/did cause a system crash on around 8.5m Windows PCs globally and billions of dollars of insured damage.
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