Category: Privacy

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Interoperability across the Atlantic

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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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Beeper as the universal inbox

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Sometimes, a tool is the best way to demonstrate to people just how powerful interoperability can be. And Beeper is very rapidly making the potential of messaging interoperability clear (and providing the universal inbox many people would like.)

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Operating Systems need privacy-protective friend-finding services

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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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