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Why Isn’t the FTC Tackling Facebook’s Data-opoly?
Nothing in the FTC’s and states’ complaints’ prayer for relief seeks to give users greater control over their data, such as not being tracked...
Digital Platforms Should Contribute to the Enforcement of Sector-Specific Regulations
Tech companies often rely on the European Union’s outdated e-Commerce Directive to oppose and undermine new laws and regulations. The EU should overhaul the...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Contact Tracing, Debt, and the Oil Crash
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Contact tracing. If someone had told...
Testing People and Targeted Isolation: How to Save More Lives (and the American Economy)
Nobel laureate Paul Romer's model shows that if we use a test to determine who gets put into isolation, the fraction of the population...
Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
How Google and Facebook Made Digital Advertising Markets Increasingly Opaque to Protect Their Dominance
According to the British Competition and Markets Authority, barriers to entry are so high that not even Amazon is a real threat to Google...
The Only Regulation Mark Zuckerberg Likes Is No Regulation
In an op-ed and a white paper, Facebook's CEO argues that "private companies should not make so many decisions alone when they touch on...
The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free
The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
The Intersection of Privacy, Data, and Competition
The issues around technology, data, and privacy are complicated, but solving them is less tricky that many companies would have Congress believe.
Editor’s note: The...
