Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown, Douwe Korff and friends
Many thanks to my FGV compadre Nico Zingales and the other Brazilian/European colleagues who organised and spoke at the fascinating online conference, Interoperability in Digital Platforms and its Regulation: a Transatlantic Dialogue. Here are my speaking notes.
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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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