The European Commission finally announced its decision in the Google AdSense investigation on Wednesday 20 March 2019. The Commission found that Google’s Adsense for Search product had a market share of over 70% in the EEA market for online search advertising mediation platforms, thus having a dominant position in that market. The Commission found that…
Preiskel & Co Partner, Tim Cowen, will today chair a session at Infrastructure Investor’s Digital Infrastructure Forum. The session Tim will moderate will focus on how policymakers and regulators are driving investment in the digital economy. In particular, this will focus on the following issues: legislating to address broadband speeds encouraging competition in these markets…
Lord Tyrie, the Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published his preliminary advice on reform to the UK competition law regime. On 21 February 2019, his outline for reforms was published on the CMA website. The proposals are apparently aimed at ensuring the legal framework is robust enough to protect consumers and…
On 23 January 2019, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a Guide on social media endorsements made by popular social media users, known in the industry as influencers. The Guide requires that influencers make it clear when they have been paid, given or loaned things which are then featured in their Instagram, Snapchat or…
The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s antitrust authority, has issued a ruling which requires Facebook to obtain user consent before it can continue to gather so much data about users from beyond the Facebook app and website. In a press release, the regulator explained that under Facebook’s current terms and conditions, users can only use the social network…
TMT analysis: Daniel Preiskel, partner, and Stephan Buck, senior associate, at Preiskel & Co LLP explain the practical effect of the new European Electronic Communications Code and its impact upon practitioners.
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A draft of the Mobile Roaming (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were published (having been laid before Parliament) on 5 February 2019. Accompanying the draft legislation was an explanatory memorandum provided by the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. These updated regulations aim to ensure that adequate legislation continues to operate effectively after the…
Danny Preiskel and Stephan Buck have had published by LexisNexis an article on the European Electronic Communications Code, following the adoption of the EU Directive in December 2018 to modernise the regulation of telecoms in Europe. A fascinating read, the article provides insight into how the new European Electronic Communications Code will shape the communications…
Preiskel & Co Consultant, Philip Goldenberg, has written an article in the Independent, considering whether the “Humble Address”, an obscure Parliamentary mechanism under which MPs can make their desires known directly to the Queen, could offer the House of Commons an escape from Brexit.
A fascinating read, the article can be found here.
The EU-US Privacy Shield after Brexit: The US Commerce Department and the Information Commissioner’s Office Publish Guidance After Brexit, can companies rely on the Privacy Shield Framework to receive personal data from the United Kingdom? This question has been answered on the Department of Commerce new website page, entitled Privacy Shield and the UK FAQs.…
