What do Germans think about DMA interoperability?
In December, German research agency WIK published an interesting (critical) study on the DMA NIICS interoperability requirements. I have innovation-related questions š§
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Will RCS support make iMessage interoperable?
You have to analyse every Apple announcement through the lens of how it plans to maintain its market power and attack regulation. So, will Appleās promised Rich Communication Services (RCS) support make iMessage fully interoperable at least with Google’s Messages? What would the most grudging compliance with Chinese 5G regulations look like?
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GDPR under-enforcement by regulators is a warning for the DMA
Prof. David Erdos has shared his latest (excellent) research showing i) little UK GDPR enforcement, ii) a worrying gap with formal law expectations & iii) limited accountability for this. I hope the European Commission is not going down the same route with the Digital Markets Act.
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Will Draghi/Letta ācompetitivenessā reports reshape EU tech regulation?
Forthcoming reports for the EU by two former Italian prime ministers, āSuperā Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta, are likely to be very influential on the next European Commission and Parliament. Here are some potentially far-reaching tech regulation-related comments they’ve made so far.
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My evidence to the European Parliament on the DMAās third-party app/app store provisions
This morning, Iāve been giving evidence to the European Parliamentās Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on the Digital Markets Act (which the committee led on). Alongside Epic Games, we discussed the provisions requiring āgatekeeperā tech firms (currently, Apple, Google and Microsoft) to enable users to install apps from outside the gatekeeperās own app stores.
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Auto-translation and view diversity
What Iām missing most from Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn and X is auto-translation. Manual translation doesnāt work well in a scrolling feed model, because youāre less likely to pause on foreign language posts to manually translate them.
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End-to-end security does not require identical endpoints
I hesitated even in linking to this preposterous article. But its definition of āend-to-endā encryption as requiring āidentical endpointsā is not one Iāve seen before (and my PhD title literally includes the phrase!)
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Does the DMA require direct app downloads?
Android, iOS and Windows have all been designated as gatekeeper operating systems (OSes) under the Digital Markets Act. Does this mean they must support direct installation of third-party apps?
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X to become DMA-designated gatekeeper?
Exciting news indeed from Brussels. Apparently X has told the European Commission it meets the criteria to be designated as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act š¤©šæ. If so, then we REALLY need the DMA Art. 7 messaging interoperability mandate expanded to social networking services, and aggressive enforcement of those existing provisions which would partly enable this.
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On the persistence of exTwitter
With X/Twitter, Elon Musk seems to be singlehandedly illustrating the exciting antitrust concept of Significant Non-transitory Decreases in Quality while having limited impact on X usage (thanks to network effects).
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