When: Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 September Where: Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay Road 4606, Building 555, Block 346 – Bahrain On the afternoon of 13th September, regulators from the Middle East will gather with their peers from further afield to share priorities, experiences, best practice and collaboration in an invitation-only, roundtable format.It will be followed by… [Read More]
Regulatory Watch – June 2022
Mastercard will go ahead and launch its new biometric checkout programme despite privacy concerns. The system, in which payments can be made ‘with a smile or a wave’, is claimed to cut queues and provide more security than a standard card payment, but lawyers point out that, while passwords can be changed, a smile can’t,… [Read More]
Round-up of the latest industry news – May 2022
Regulatory Watch Technology companies may have to bear some of the cost of Europe’s telecoms network, according to Margarethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner. Describing it as an issue of ‘fair contribution’ she went on to say that companies ‘generating a lot of traffic… have not been contributing to enabling the investments in the rollout… [Read More]
IIC Australian Chapter Event | Regulating digital platforms: Should Australia follow the EU’s approach?
When: Tuesday, 12th July 2022Time: 5:45pm – 7:00pmWhere: Clayton Utz, Sydney During March this year the European Parliament and Council reached agreement on the Digital Markets Act. This pioneering legislation, which will take effect in early 2023, aims to stimulate competition in digital markets by imposing stringent new requirements on so-called digital gatekeepers, regulating data collection… [Read More]
Round-up of the latest industry news – April 2022
Regulatory Watch Italy’s antitrust regulator, AGCM, has said it will lift a ban on Sky’s Italian business relating to exclusive content on its online service platform. The 3 year ban was imposed in 2019 following Sky’s acquisition of some of the TV assets of Mediaset, which regulators said would limit competition. AGCM says that changes… [Read More]
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project – Website launch and Summer 2022 conference
The Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMCIP): Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries. The GMCIP are pleased to announce the launch of their project’s very own website and further details for their Summer 2022 Conference: Digital Communications and Media Markets: Power, Policy and Global Perspectives. For further reading please… [Read More]