November 29, 2022
Irish Watchdog Fines Meta For Violations Of Europe’s Data Privacy...
Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland’s data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in...
November 21, 2022
UK Goes After Meta Over Data Collection
Facebook parent Meta is facing demands that it stop harvesting personal data in the UK for targeted advertisements in a new lawsuit that goes to the heart of Facebook’s business...
November 17, 2022
Tearing Down Walled Gardens: Encouraging Adversarial Interoperability to Promote Competition
The concentration of the Internet economy behind the walled gardens of a select few companies has led policymakers across the political spectrum to call for congressional action. However, most legislation...
November 17, 2022
Interoperability as a Remedy in Antitrust Cases
Interoperability between the products and services of different firms promotes competition by lowering switching costs. Requiring dominant firms to make their products interoperable, or reducing barriers to interoperability, are important...
November 14, 2022
EU Data Regulator Wants To Meet With Twitter Over Privacy
Twitter will meet with its European Union data protection watchdog next week after a raft of firings and the resignation of its chief privacy officer, prompting concerns about the safety...
November 07, 2022
EU Publishes Proposed New Rulebook for Short-Term Rental Sector
The European Commission adopted a proposal Monday (Nov. 7) to enhance information sharing between online accommodation rental platforms and public authorities If implemented, the new rules will affect Airbnb and...
November 03, 2022
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Promote Greater EU Inter-Bank Collaboration in Fighting Fraud
Banks are not the police. And yet, for many crimes, financial institutions (FIs) are often on the front lines when it comes to preventing and detecting fraud. Faced with this...
October 31, 2022
A General Critique of Potential “Behavioral Economics” Rationales for Regulating...
While most regulatory scrutiny of the big tech sector is couched in terms of competition or lack thereof, behavioral economics may provide rationales outside that framework. Behavioral economics is generally...
October 31, 2022
Tech Platforms Help Lawyers Catch Up With Flexible Work Trend
Whether it’s working with major law firms or big companies, most LegalTech startups have prioritized the business-to-business (B2B) aspect of the sector, leading to significant innovation in that space in...
