Mikołaj Barczentewicz Cited by SIIA on the DMA and the Brussels Effect
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) cited an analysis by ICLE Senior Scholar of Innovation Policy Mikołaj Barczentewicz in an article on the EU Digital Markets Act’s declining influence on global technology regulation. The piece examines why countries are taking a cautious approach to similar rules, including concerns about innovation, regulatory costs, and the cybersecurity and privacy risks of interoperability mandates. Read the full article here.
Beyond consumer friction and pop-up fatigue, the DMA also creates deeper cybersecurity and privacy risks through its interoperability rules—vulnerabilities that the scholar Mikolaj Barczentewicz argues could violate European human rights law while burdening home-grown firms. For governments considering adopting ex ante frameworks, however, the biggest hurdle is institutional: the need to build an expansive regulatory apparatus to proactively design market rules in advance, rather than allowing companies to iteratively fix problems as they emerge.