How can the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act proposals, now being debated by the European Parliament and Council, do more to stimulate competition and to get a better deal for users of digital services like social media, instant messaging and search? How can the DMA/DSA package make it easier for European tech startups to compete fairly in these markets, give European consumers a better choice of services and better protect fundamental rights such as privacy online?
Many MEPs, European SMEs, academics and civil society groups think a stronger focus on interoperability requirements for core digital services can play a key role. Join us for this stimulating conversation between leading experts on how the proposed legislation should be amended.
Speakers
Dr. Ian Brown
Independent Consultant
Dr Ian Brown is an Internet regulation expert who consults for governmental organisations and other clients, including a recent report on AI accountability for the UK government and advising Open Society Foundations on digital market contestability. Ian is Visiting Professor at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, and was previously Principal Scientific Officer, at the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the Oxford Internet Institute until 2016. He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on their study of global cybercrime. For the OECD, he co-authored with Peter Sommer the 2010 report “Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk”. His most recent books are Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age (with Christopher T. Marsden) (2013, MIT Press) and Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet (editor, 2013, Edward Elgar).
Maria Luisa Stasi
Head of Law and Policy for Digital Markets at ARTICLE 19
