Category: Legislation

macOS Settings screenshot: Default Messaging App -- Beeper

Beeper as the universal inbox

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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Digital competition law reform Down Under 🦘

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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Operating Systems need privacy-protective friend-finding services

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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