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January 26, 2022

Privacy and Security Risks of Interoperability and Sideloading Mandates

There has been a wave of legislative proposals on both sides of the Atlantic that purport to improve consumer choice and the competitiveness of digital markets. In a new working paper published by…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 24, 2022

Privacy and Security Implications of Regulation of Digital Services in the EU and in the US

Mikołaj Barczentewicz

Written for the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) Working Paper Series, ICLE Senior Scholar Mikołaj Barczentewicz assesses privacy and security risks raised by U.S. and EU legislative proposals to regulate digital platforms.

Data Security & Privacy

January 19, 2022

App Stores as Public Utilities?

Giuseppe Colangelo & Oscar Borgogno

In a new paper, Giuseppe Colangelo and Oscar Borgogno investigate whether antitrust policy is sufficiently flexible to keep up with the dynamics of digital app stores, and whether regulatory interventions are…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 19, 2022

Testimony of Geoffrey A. Manne, 'Reviving Competition, Part 5: Addressing the Effects of Economic Concentration on America’s Food Supply'

Geoffrey A. Manne

ICLE President Geoffrey Manne testified to the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee on the role of competition in America's food-supply chain.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 18, 2022

10 Things the American Innovation and Choice Online Act Gets Wrong

Dirk Auer

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to debate S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (or AICOA) during a markup session Thursday. If passed into law, the bill would force online platforms…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 12, 2022

Intermediaries: The Hero We Need?

Dirk Auer

Intermediaries may not be the consumer welfare hero we want, but more often than not, they are one that we need. In policy discussions about the digital economy, a background…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 11, 2022

Amazon Italy’s Efficiency Offense

Lazar Radic & Geoffrey A. Manne

Early last month, the Italian competition authority issued a record 1.128 billion euro fine against Amazon for abuse of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 5, 2022

Crusade Against ‘Big Meat’ Is Latest Example of Misguided Effort to Use Antitrust as Anti-Inflation Tool

Alden Abbott

As a new year dawns, the Biden administration remains fixated on illogical, counterproductive “big is bad” nostrums. Noted economist and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers correctly stressed recently that using antitrust…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 22, 2021

U.S. Senate Self-Preferencing Bill Offers Perfect Recipe for Regulatory Overreach

Samuel Bowman

Even as delivery services work to ship all of those last-minute Christmas presents that consumers bought this season from digital platforms and other e-commerce sites, the U.S. House and Senate…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection