Jammin'Digital
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -This podcast offers insights, analysis and comment on all things digital in Brussels and beyond
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Navigating New Regulatory Environment for Digital - Interview with Rima Alaily
February 07, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBTune in for an interview with Rima Alaily, Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft . Hear her views on: Whether regulators are turning on big tech The emerging 'ecosystem' theory of harm in merger control of digital deals The largest Microsoft's acquisition ever: video game publisher Activision Blizzard
Digital Markets Under Regulatory Scrutiny in the UK - Interview with Sarah Cardell
November 24, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBTune in for an interview with Sarah Cardell, Interim Chief Executive at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Hear insights into: Post-Brexit CMA investigations into digital companies in parallel with the European Commission to ensure coverage of the UK How has the CMA merger control practice evolved when looking at transactions in the digital space How the dedicated Digital Markets Unit (DMU) has been integrated into the CMA's work; impact of the delay of the DMU legislative pla...
German Take on Taming Digital Giants – Interview with Andreas Mundt
October 18, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBTune in for an interview with Andreas Mundt, President of the German Bundeskartellamt (BKartA), and Chair of the International Competition Network, to hear about the BKartA’s competition enforcement in the digital space. Hear insights into: What’s next on the BKartA’s agenda under the so-called “Section 19a GWB” against online platforms designated as being of “paramount importance” for competition Which role remains for the BKartA in taming market power online now that the EU is rolling o...
Blockchain & Antitrust – Interview with Thibault Schrepel
September 18, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBTune in for an interview with Thibault Schrepel, a blockchain expert appointed to the World Economic Forum and the World Bank, author of book “Blockchain + Antitrust” (2021) as well as author of the world's most downloaded antitrust articles in four subsequent years. Hear why he considers that: Antitrust in blockchain is like jazz music – "pretty much dead" Blockchains can challenge today’s gatekeepers Competition authorities should start by scrutinising how blockchain can be used t...
Enforcing Competition in Digital Markets - Interview with Isabelle de Silva
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBTune in for an interview with Isabelle de Silva – until recently, President of the French Autorité de la concurrence – to hear her insights into competition enforcement work in digital markets pursued under her leadership; as well as her take on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) – the EU legislative proposal designed to tame the power of the largest digital platforms – the so-called "gatekeepers".
EU Digital Markets Act III - Interview with Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo
June 22, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBTune in for an interview with Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo in the third episode of our series dedicated to the Digital Markets Act (DMA) - the EU legislative proposal designed to tame the power of large digital platforms - the so-called "gatekeepers". Hear insights of Alfonso - who is a vocal commentator on the draft DMA - about: Weaknesses in the very legal basis the DMA is built on The risk of fragmentation of EU competition law “Fixes” co-legislators should consider to enable the DMA...
EU Digital Markets Act II - Interview with MEP Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
June 10, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBTune in for an interview with MEP Stéphanie Yon-Courtin in the second episode of our series dedicated to the Digital Markets Act (DMA) - the EU legislative proposal designed to complement existing competition law, in attempt to tame the power of digital platforms - the so-called "gatekeepers". Hear insights of MEP Yon-Courtin - who is the European Parliament ECON Committee's rapporteur on the DMA - about: The role of national competition authorities The interplay with traditional competit...
EU Digital Markets Act I - Interview with Philip Marsden
June 01, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBTune in for an interview with Philip Marsden in the first episode of our series dedicated to the Digital Markets Act (DMA) - the EU legislative proposal designed to complement existing competition law, in attempt to tame the power of digital platforms that, quoting the DMA itself, serve as a "gateway for business users to reach end users" - the so-called "gatekeepers". Hear insights of Philip Marsden - who counts decades in various lead and advisory roles to competition enforcement and regu...
German Facebook case - Interview with Prof. Rupprecht Podszun
May 18, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBTune in for an interview with Prof. Rupprecht Podszun about the first of its kind case into Facebook where competition and privacy law collide. The antitrust case pursued by the German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, centres on alleged exploitative dominance abuse by amassing private user data in breach of EU privacy rules. Prof. Podszun, who says he “loves the case”, has been one of the lead observers and commentators of the twists and turns of the proceedings that have now rea...
Fake news dissemination on social media - Interview with Prof. L. Chiou
April 28, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBTune in for an interview with economics professor Lesley Chiou about her research on fake news dissemination on social media. The research examines dissemination of disinformation on health – and the spread of fake news about vaccination – on Facebook in particular. Hear about: How people use social media for health information How social media affects the way people go about their health The role of advertising in the dissemination of fake news 'Echo chamber' effect in Facebook anti...
Regulating AI: Interview with MEP Axel Voss
April 20, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBThis episode features an interview with Axel Voss - a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) who is one of the key drivers of the EU policy debate on Artificial Intelligence. MEP Voss tells Jammin'Digital about the European Parliament's legislative own-initiative report on a civil liability regime for Artificial Intelligence and the work on the report by the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (the so-called 'AIDA' committee). Tune in and learn: What regu...
The Brussels Effect: Interview with Prof. Anu Bradford
April 13, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBIn this episode, hear about the global reach of EU regulatory powers. Prof. Anu Bradford explains the concept of the far-reaching 'Brussels effect' that is created by global companies applying EU rules not only in Europe, but around the globe; how businesses 'gravitate' towards EU regulatory standards that tend to be the most stringent in the world. Tune in and learn: How the 'Brussels effect' applies in different regulatory areas, and how prominent it is in the digital sector, in particu...
EU privacy rules & current agenda: Interview with Dr Andrea Jelinek
March 21, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBThis episode features an interview with Dr Andrea Jelinek, Director of the Austrian Data Protection Authority and Chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) – an independent EU body that was set up to ensure consistent application of European privacy rules. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) it is turning three this May. The gdpr.eu refers to it as “the toughest privacy and security law in the world.” It is also privacy legislation that has the widest geographica...
How will EU go about disinformation online: Interview with Renate Nikolay
March 20, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode, hear about the EU regulatory plans for online platforms and other digital players to tackle disinformation (aka 'fake news'). The podcast features an interview with Renate Nikolay, the Head of Cabinet of the European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova who is leading the Commission’s work in this respect. The public debate about platform accountability for online content has escalated when several social media platforms deactivated Donald Trump’s accounts, in the afterm...