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The EU’s Digital Services Act – Is it the Most Important Privacy Act You’ve Never Heard of?
This week, let's consider what may be the most important privacy law you've never heard of -- the EU's Digital Services Act. The DSA will take effect in 2024, but it’s so significant that large social media platforms will need every minute before then to prepare.
Antitrust Takes Center Stage in China?
This week, let’s consider the increased regulatory scrutiny on China’s “big tech” companies and its parallels to the U.S. antitrust and trade regulation issues.
Antitrust Reform and “Coopetition"
This week, let’s consider what’s happening on the Hill and in Silicon Valley—from antitrust reform to “coopetition”—and then we’re going make a prediction about new antitrust legislation.
Online Platforms Under Pressure
This week, let’s consider how online platforms are under pressure from proposed laws covering anti-counterfeiting, contributory liability, disinformation, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and more.
The "Hipster" Antitrust Hearing
This week, let’s consider the House’s historic antitrust hearing, the reckoning faced by Big Tech companies, and why we think data privacy and monopolies of data should factor into antitrust considerations.
EU Watchdog Warns of Privacy Problems with Google-Fitbit Deal; But What About Data-opoly?
This week, we consider privacy problems and “data-opolies” in connection with Google’s plan to acquire Fitbit.
Privacy meets Antitrust
This week saw privacy collide with antitrust, as Facebook’s co-founder, Chris Hughes, wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times calling for Facebook to be broken up.