June 02, 2023
Judge Dismisses DC’s Data Analytics Suit Against Meta
A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington DC against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead...
April 12, 2023
Portability, not Doctrine, is Key to Unlock User Agency for...
Data is of central importance for users of digital services, and for many years has been the subject of significant attention in the realm of public policy. In the context...
March 23, 2023
Transatlantic Perspectives On Interlocking Directorates
This article highlights the potential anticompetitive risks raised by interlocking directorates between competitors, as facilitating collusion, and possibly reducing the intensity of competition, especially if combined with financial links. In...
February 22, 2023
Regulating Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence using machine-learning (“AI/ML”) is already providing countless benefits to society, but is also presenting some risks and concerns that require governance. Yet, the rapid pace of AI/ML, the...
February 09, 2023
Meta Investors Want To Revive Cambridge Analytica Fraud Case
Meta investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm...
January 18, 2023
A Definition of Platforms with Meaningful Policy Implications
While the term “platform” is ubiquitous in everyday language, its precise definition in the context of topics related to competition, policy and antitrust still remains ambiguous. This arguably for technical...
December 16, 2022
Content Moderation and Competition in Digital Markets
In this contribution we look at the upcoming changes in the EU platform regulation. More specifically, we focus on the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) from the competition perspective. The DSA...
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 17, 2022
The Proposed U.S. Access Act Mandating Interoperability Will Not Unleash...
Congress is considering legislation (“the ACCESS Act”) that mandates interoperability in an effort to stimulate competition in digital markets such as social networking. However, as currently written, the legislation is...