Meta’s Less-personalised Ads: A Compliance Facade?

Meta has introduced a new free subscription option with less personalised ads for Facebook and Instagram. Is this the end of behavioural advertising or a showcase of illusive compliance? Sebastian Steinert analyses Meta’s tactics to protect its data-driven business model based on behavioural advertising.   By Sebastian Steinert “We want to empower citizens to be […]

A human-centred digital transformation: can we recapture the promises of the internet?

Book Review – Digital Policy in the EU: Towards a Human-Centred Digital Transformation” by Werner Stengg Werner Stengg’s formal position sounds modest: He is a „Cabinet Expert“ in the European Commission. Yet, Stengg, a Commission official since 1996, is one of the masterminds behind European digital regulation. In his career he oversaw many important portfolios […]

Big Tech through the lenses of Brazil’s competition watchdog CADE and the path ahead

The so-called Brussels Effect has reached Brazil. The Draft Brazilian Digital Markets Bill, which foresees not only regulatory oversight of Big Tech platforms by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency but also its funding by Big Tech itself (!), is still pending since November 2022. A new government report recommends adding new rules under the existing […]

The idealo-founder speaks: Google Shopping, the DMA, and the future of the Internet – Interview with Albrecht von Sonntag

The aftershocks of the European Court of Justice’s Google Shopping judgement were still noticeable over the last couple of weeks. Unsurprising given the decade-long run up and built-up suspense to the judgement. There could be no better time to interview Albrecht von Sonntag, internet pioneer and co-founder of the Berlin-based online price comparison platform idealo […]

Breaking the Summer Break – Digital platform developments you might have missed and should look out for in the second half of 2024

After a thunderstorm of DMA enforcement actions in the first half of 2024, climaxing with the latest preliminary findings send to Apple and Meta mid-June and early July, things seemed to have become a bit quieter around the Commission and its gatekeepers during the summer weeks. But silence can be deceptive – find out here […]

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