The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been focusing lately on the adverse impacts of Online Choice Architecture (OCA) and how it can hurt competition and consumers. The situations in which people make decisions and how alternatives are presented to them are described by choice architecture. In online settings, choice architecture is the environment in which users act, including the display and positioning of options as well as the design of interfaces. OCA issues tend…
Brief refresher on the Data Governance Act (DGA): We covered the new wave of EU data-centric legislation that is being implemented to usher in stronger regulatory guardrails for data in our recent article on the EU Data Strategy, with one of the discussed laws being the Data Governance Act. The Data Governance Act (DGA) is aimed at increasing accessibility to data by regulating the re-use of publicly held protected data, increasing data sharing through the…