Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun weighs in on today’s widespread IT outage and how it exposes the great risk in monopolistic corporations controlling our communications systems.
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The Open Markets Institute and several civil society partners active in the European Union have published “Rebalancing Europe: A New Economic Agenda for Tackling Monopoly Power,” a new manifesto for the next European Commission and Parliament that sets out how policymakers should more effectively address monopoly power and control in Europe.
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Open Markets and partner civil society organisations active in Europe urge the European Commission to address early concentration in the AI market.
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Open Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement regarding Amazon’s announcement it will no longer seek to acquire home robotics firm, iRobot.
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A coalition of civil society groups including Open Markets, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Mozilla, Foxglove and more wrote to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling for a full investigation into Microsoft's $13 billion monopolistic partnership with OpenAI.
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The Open Markets Institute, Foxglove, and Balanced Economy Project have provided a civil society submission on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), as the bill moves to the House of Lords for further discussion.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting other actors – have already positioned themselves to control the future of artificial intelligence and magnify many of the worst problems of the digital age.
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The Open Markets Institute, SOMO and the Balanced Economy Project today made a formal submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of the authority’s antitrust investigation of Amazon’s UK marketplace.
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun puts out a statement welcoming the EC on its investigation into Amazon/iRobot.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe released a statement on the European Commission’s announcement that it may move to require Google to divest parts of its online advertising business.
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The Open Markets Institute has led a joint submission to the European Commission on the critical role of third parties in implementation and enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun leads an official submission to the EC alongside other partnered interest groups emphasizing the threats of Amazon’s intentions to takeover iRobot.
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The Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun released the following statement with regard to the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) issuing of provisional findings from its investigation into Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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The Open Markets Institute, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a forum of 75 NGOs, have sent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint submission on the privacy, market, and security hazards of surveillance advertising, urging the agency to act against commercial surveillance and to define “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) as an unfair and deceptive practice.
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