A new chapter for tech regulation: the UK’s competition reform
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
A draft bill expected to be introduced to parliament in the coming months is set to give legal backing to planned competition reforms published by the UK government last year, a move which could have significant implications for tech regulation. Andrea Coscelli, former chief executive of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, joins this week’s podcast to discuss the changes and how they compare to similar efforts within the EU ..read more
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Open RAN: European and American views
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
Fundamental differences between the EU and the US remain on Open RAN. We pick up this debate, in particular looking at the security aspect, with John Baker, Senior Vice President for Business Development at Mavenir, and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy ..read more
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Is the DMA the real AI regulation?
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
The Digital Markets Act targets the largest technology companies in the world, which are also the main developers of Artificial Intelligence. For professor Philipp Hacker and other academics of the European New School of Digital Studies, the DMA might become actual EU rulebook on AI. We discuss with Hacker his argument and how the DMA might interact with the upcoming AI Act ..read more
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DMA: upcoming challenges and the switching question
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
As the European Commission laying the preparatory work to enforce the Digital Markets Act, we took a look at the main challenges and potential pitfalls in the implementation process, paying particular attention to the switching tools, with Alexandre de Streel, academic director at CERRE, and Amelia Fletcher, professor of competition policy at the University of East Anglia and CERRE’s research fellow ..read more
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Auditing algorithms
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
AI audits are a nascent field due to rapidly developing with the adoption of the EU’s AI Act. But what are the conditions for a robust auditing regime? And what are the risks of so-called ‘audit-washing’? We discuss this and more with Julia Tréhu, Program Manager and Fellow at the German Marshal Fund, and Ellen Goodman, distinguished professor at Rutgers Law School ..read more
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Data Act – where are we?
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
The Data Act has the grand ambition of creating a market for non-personal data in Europe. We discussed with Heiko Richter, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute, the current state of the policy discussions on the new data law and the pitfalls that need to be avoided ..read more
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Competition in the metaverse
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
The metaverse poses all kinds of regulatory challenges. EURACTIV discussed with Friedrich Wenzel Bulst and Sophie De Vinck, two official from the European Commission’s competition department, how they expect the metaverse to affect current enforcement trends and if the new EU’s rulebook for Big Tech, the Digital Markets Act, will be fit for the task ..read more
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What the US mid-term elections mean for Europe’s digital agenda
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
Last week, the United States was called to the ballots for its mid-term elections, resulting in a more divided Congress. We discuss what this all means for Europe’s digital policy, public subsidies and the next Trade and Technology Council meeting with Tyson Barker, the head of the Technology and Global Affairs Program at the German Council of Foreign Relations ..read more
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The industry’s view on the Cyber Resilience Act
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
The EU’s proposal for a Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is the first horizontal regulation to introduce security requirements for connected devices and related services. However, the draft regulation has promoted a debate about the type of products that should be covered. We discussed the critical aspects of the proposal with Grégoire Gaonach, a cybersecurity engineer and digital policy consultant at Political Intelligence ..read more
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Schrems: round three
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by EURACTIV
1y ago
Last month, an executive order detailed the EU-US Privacy Shield 2.0, a new legal framework for transatlantic data flows made necessary by the Schrems II ruling. We caught up with Max Schrems, the privacy activist who gave the name to the two landmark verdicts, to discuss the new arrangement and the potential implications of a Schrems III. We also touched upon what is currently wrong with the GDPR enforcement and what more can be done to fix it in the near future ..read more
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