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FAILED EXPERIMENT: THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT’S VAST UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

As the European Union enforces its Digital Markets Act (DMA), it is raising fundamental questions about Europe’s approach to digital markets regulation, how it may actually be undermining Europe’s long-term ability to improve its digital ecosystem, and unintentionally exposing Europeans to new harms, without any commensurate ability to move swiftly to fix things. This report series from Trusted Future’s co-chair Jim Kohlenberger assesses the unintended effects of the DMA and finds that contradictions in the EU’s digital governance framework create potentially catastrophic consequences – and require immediate patching and a reboot.

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Tina’s Video Game Journey

New laws in Texas and Utah and proposals in Louisiana and the U.S.
Congress require an app user’s age be verified at the app store. On the surface, these bills have a great goal: ensuring that children only access age-appropriate content online.

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Travis’ Story

As policymakers look for better ways to empower parents to protect their children
online, we also need to protect parents and kids from proposals that further
undermine children’s privacy, without solving important issues facing parents.

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