Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown, Douwe Korff and friends
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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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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States should not be allowed to hide behind asserted independence of state organs. They must reply in substance to serious allegations, including that the supposedly independent state organs are applying the law in an excessive and repressive manner that threatens fundamental rights.
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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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This Note is an immediate response to the recent EDPB guidance relating to the processing of certain special categories of personal data that enjoy special protection under the GDPR, commonly referred to as “sensitive data”. The Note explains why the EDPB’s guidance is not clear enough.
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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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