Digital Markets, Competition & Antitrust
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Shaping Policy That Promotes Competition
It’s imperative policymakers understand digital competition is unlike the hard-goods market. The ideas of finite distribution and product scarcity are almost entirely irrelevant. Instead, we promote smart policy that examines consumer benefits when measuring how well the market is functioning. If competitive and antitrust regulation is too stringent, we risk crippling innovation that pushes society forward.
The Latest on Digital Markets
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Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business Relations
Read more: Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business RelationsDevelopers Alliance Press Release on the Publication of the European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Promoting Fairness and Transparency for Business Users of Online Intermediation Services and Online Search Engines in the Digital Single Market
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Developers: Five steps you can take NOW to prepare for the looming data privacy reboot
Read more: Developers: Five steps you can take NOW to prepare for the looming data privacy rebootWhat follows is an introduction to the data and trust project that the Developers Alliance began in late 2017. Throughout 2018 the project will deliver developer insights, best practices with data, educational material to demystify data for users and policy makers, and a dialogue series to bring in experts and outside voices on the topic…
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What can developers learn from the Cambridge Analytica cluster?
Read more: What can developers learn from the Cambridge Analytica cluster?It seems that every other week a story emerges alleging that someone, somewhere, misused or mishandled someone’s data. And whether the real problem is a hacker, a rogue developer, or a sloppy business partner, the casualty is user trust, and the whole digital ecosystem suffers. We suffer. You suffer. Our industry suffers.
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Developers Alliance reaction to the statements of Bruno Le Maire, France’s Economy Minister on the relationship between developers and app stores
Read more: Developers Alliance reaction to the statements of Bruno Le Maire, France’s Economy Minister on the relationship between developers and app storesDevelopers Alliance Director of European Policy and Government Relations, Michela Palladino, released the following reaction to the statements of Bruno Le Maire, France’s Economy Minister on the relationship between developers and app stores, such as Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
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Updated position paper on the Proposal for an E-Privacy Regulation
Read more: Updated position paper on the Proposal for an E-Privacy RegulationThe Developers Alliance represents software developers and the companies invested in their success.The Alliance’s members include businesses of all sizes that are leaders in consumer, enterprise,industrial, and emerging software development,…
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Industry associations reiterate concerns about consequences of upcoming fairness in platform-to-business relations regulation
Read more: Industry associations reiterate concerns about consequences of upcoming fairness in platform-to-business relations regulationToday a group of industry representatives, including the Developers Alliance, sent a letter to the European Commission on the forthcoming initiative on fairness in platform-to-business relations.
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Again, Legislation from Congress on H-1B Reform Fails
Read more: Again, Legislation from Congress on H-1B Reform FailsThis week Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, introduced amendments to the Senate’s immigration legislation that target high-skilled workers. The amendments are part of a broader immigration reform package that’s pending in Congress and we’re glad high-skilled workers aren’t being overlooked in the process.
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Brace (and prepare) yourself: the GDPR is coming
Read more: Brace (and prepare) yourself: the GDPR is comingOn 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force and start governing all aspects of EU personal data collection and management by websites and apps from anywhere in the world – what data is collected, how it’s collected, how and where it’s stored, where it’s shared, and so on.
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Developers Caution European Commission Against Fragmenting Mobile Market
Read more: Developers Caution European Commission Against Fragmenting Mobile MarketThursday, 18 January 2018 Contact: Michela Palladino – michela@developersalliance.org BRUSSELS — Today the Developers Alliance, joined by dozens of mobile application developers, sent a letter to the European Commission cautioning against…
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Changes on the Horizon in 2018 for Foreign Workers
Read more: Changes on the Horizon in 2018 for Foreign WorkersEarlier this year (and we’re only on day 11!) reports surfaced that the administration was planning to cut the option for H-1B renewals beyond six years, regardless of whether visa holders were in the application process for a permanent residency green card. This proposal is guided by Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” initiative. Under the current…
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