Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
Cristina Caffarra’s annual competition-fest today in Brussels was as speaker- and content-packed as ever. As well as much discussion of the eagerly anticipated deadline for Digital Markets Act compliance in five weeks, it was a fascinating look beyond narrow antitrust policy to competition policy linkages with industrial and trade policy (with lots of AI on the side).
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What type of service is TikTok under the Digital Markets Act? And should an interoperability requirement be applied to its new Twitter-like service?
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Many thanks to Tommaso Valletti and Cristina Caffarra for organising this spectacularly good panel on antitrust and generative AI. It’s well worth watching in full, but I’ve tried to capture some key points.
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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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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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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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Key points on how the almost-final interoperability obligation in the EU Digital Markets Act interacts with end-to-end encrypted services.
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My comments on a new report from Commons Network and Open Future, which looks at the broader implications and possibilities of interoperability in “platformised” societies.
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