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The UK Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally designated Google as having Strategic Market Status – a step toward curbing the company’s dominance in online search. The Knight-Georgetown Institute finds evidence to support this designation and urges the UK to prioritize stronger interventions that address key barriers to entry in the search market.
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The European Commission’s new guidelines to protect minors online mark a step forward in online child safety, offering recommendations for how platforms are designed, including limits on manipulative design techniques, defaults to maximize protection, more agency for children, and regular risk reviews.
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A new report by Ofcom, the UK’s communication services regulator, underscores the challenges researchers face in accessing platform data and proposes a roadmap to improve researcher’s access to data to support online safety.
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A new legislative toolkit from the Knight-Georgetown Institute equips lawmakers with modular components to support the development of legislation that encourages algorithmic feeds that put people first.
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A new report by the Knight-Georgetown Institute shows how the US government’s proposed Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible. The in-depth engineering assessment shows how an independent Chrome browser can thrive outside of Google and compete with Chrome’s major rivals.
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Robust and comprehensive remedies in the US government’s Google search antitrust case would help prevent Google from leveraging its monopoly power in search to dominate the emerging market for generative AI products.
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The EU’s Digital Services Act risk assessments and audits create the possibility of increased platform transparency and accountability, but the first round falls far short of realizing that potential. The first assessments and audits largely fail to sufficiently consider the role of platform design in relation to risk and lack specificity about the data, metrics, and methods used to evaluate risk and mitigation effectiveness. External analysis of risks and mitigations are further undermined by an ongoing lack of access to data.
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An estimated 4 billion people around the world use Chrome. But what if Google didn’t control the world’s most-used web browser? There’s a chance this question might no longer be hypothetical. In the U.S. government’s landmark antitrust case against Google for illegally monopolizing the online search market, one of the most consequential and hotly debated remedies on the table is the proposed spin-off of Chrome—a browser that drives more than a third of Google’s search traffic and acts as a powerful gatekeeper to the internet.
Newsweek
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In June, the European Commission announced that AliExpress agreed to a number of binding commitments to address concerns raised in proceedings under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This analysis for Tech Policy Press breaks down the AliExpress commitments and why they matter, with a focus on how commitments for recommender system transparency, access to public data for researchers, and monitoring can lead to meaningful accountability.
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In a new report, Eric Rescorla and Alissa Cooper analyze how Google’s browser, Chrome, could operate successfully as an independent entity if the court presiding over Google Search orders its divestiture.
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