30 Jul, 2020 The UK’s VSP regime: flight-testing the regulation of social media firms By Ben Packer In February 2017, NASA began wind-tunnel tests of a new “quiet” supersonic passenger jet: one that wouldn’t emit the same “sonic boom”...
27 Jul, 2020 Challenges for competition policy presented by the Covid-19 crisis : a "good crisis" for Big Tech By Linklaters On 21 July, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a discussion paper by the Rt Hon. Lord Tyrie, the outgoing Chairman of the...
27 Jul, 2020 How has Big Tech’s response to the COVID-19 “infodemic” impacted online harms proposals in the UK? By Rebecca Dickie The answer is “not really”. On Tuesday 21 July, the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published their report...
24 Jul, 2020 Hold off on the hold notices? The P4U litigation and some lessons for competition and privacy lawyers By Linklaters In a little reported but important ruling last week by the English High Court, a number of UK mobile network operators and their...
24 Jul, 2020 Targeting market power in the digital space By Bernd Meyring The second half of 2020 is promising to be a decisive time. The lock-downs in many countries have accelerated the digital...
21 Jul, 2020 Did Schrems deal a knock-out blow in a fight to which he was not invited? By Alex Roberts We have been watching for months as the world's superpowers spar for supremacy in a tech-shape boxing ring. In one corner of the squared...
19 Jul, 2020 Excitement, relief and disappointment: who would've thought China's data security law could be so emotive? By Alex Roberts I cannot deny it. I was excited to read the draft Data Security Law after it was released by Beijing's top legislators earlier this...
17 Jul, 2020 Does the General Court apply national tax law? By Bernd Meyring Any law student in an exam would of course reply no. But a cursory review of judgments, most recently yesterday's judgment on Apple's tax...
16 Jul, 2020 OneWeb, Satellites and Space Junk: Time to do more By Danny Greenland Late last week a US Judge approved the UK Government’s successful bid to take a 45% equity stake in distressed commercial satellite...
10 Jul, 2020 "Didital" currency – coming to China soon! By Alex Roberts When you want to pilot a new method of effecting secure payments in your fast-growing services industry, it is always useful to choose a...
09 Jul, 2020 Digital markets, the power of defaults and the need for more than a nudge By Linklaters Delivering a mandatory consumer nudge is an increasingly important element in the remedies toolkit for competition agencies in sectors as...
09 Jul, 2020 Payment Services - Is the FCA using Covid-19 as cover to mitigate pre-existing concerns? By Linklaters On 22 May 2020, the FCA published a consultation paper on coronavirus and the safeguarding of clients' funds. While the FCA stated that...
09 Jul, 2020 Investors have the upper-hand as down-rounds appear By Niranjan Arasaratnam The number and value of global VC investments in tech in the first half of 2020 have been significantly down compared to 2019. Investors...
07 Jul, 2020 When a double negative does not equal a positive By Alex Roberts China’s new “negative list” has been released. Often an eagerly-awaited marker of reform in the world’s second largest economy, the...
06 Jul, 2020 Facebook facing the CMA’s hold separate straightjacket By Verity Egerton-Doyle The CMA announced last week that it had made directions for the appointment of a monitoring trustee in its review of Facebook / Giphy....
03 Jul, 2020 "Unionising" the gig economy: European Commission proposals to remove competition obstacles By Linklaters The European Commission has signalled that it is prepared to introduce regulations or guidance to ensure that competition rules do not...