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On 15 December 2020, the European Commission published the
long-awaited proposals for regulation of online platforms
– the Digital Services Act (
DSA )
and the Digital Markets Act (
DMA )
– which form a part of its strategy to make Europe fit for the digital age . On the same day, the UK
Government published its response to the Online Harms White
Paper outlining its intention to introduce the Online Safety
Bill in 2021 and confirming that Ofcom will become the online harms
regulator in the UK.
All three proposals introduce new regulations for online
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Last week, the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) announced the criminal indictment of Surgical
Care Affiliates LLC ( SCA ), an Alabama- and
Illinois-based company, which owned and operated outpatient medical
centers around the U.S., for its alleged agreements with
competitors not to solicit senior-level employees. DOJ has been
suggesting since 2006 that it would use the criminal provisions of
the antitrust laws against into employee allocation
agreements-commonly called no-poach agreements, and DOJ has now
followed through on its warnings.
According to the indictment filed in the Northern District of
✔ Prevent data misuse
With respect to requiring disclosure of the basic factor used to
determine search ranking, METI has announced it will not require
providers to disclose their specific algorithms for ranking. This
is important, because each provider s ranking system is a trade
secret.
13 However, as described below,
future implementing regulations will cover the method of disclosure
and additional items for disclosure. The regulations are still
under discussion, and thus it is important to carefully monitor
developments in this area.
2. Developing fair procedures and
systems
The Act also requires the Specified Digital Platform Providers
to establish procedures and systems to promote mutual understanding
January 2021 – The Turkish Competition
Board (
the Board ) announced on its
website on 11 January that it has launched an ex-officio
investigation into the privacy practices of social media giant
Facebook and its messaging and VoIP unit, WhatsApp.
For convenience we provide a translation of the announcement
published on the Board s website: The Turkish Competition Board
( the
Board ) launched an
ex-officio investigation of Facebook and WhatsApp and stopped the
sharing of WhatsApp data with other Facebook companies
(11.1.2021)
Today (11.1.2021), with its decision dated 11.1.2021 and
numbered 21-02 / 25-M, the Board has initiated an investigation
against Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland Ltd., WhatsApp Inc.
and WhatsApp LLC (collectively referred to as
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On December 9, twin U.S. lawsuits against Facebook were launched
that will shape the competition and privacy landscape for years to
come. They were initiated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) and a coalition of Attorneys General from 48 U.S. states and
territories
1. They both allege that Facebook is
illegally maintaining its monopoly in the U.S. personal social
networking services market through a persistent pattern of
anti-competitive conduct which includes acquiring nascent rivals,
most significantly Instagram and WhatsApp.
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