The EU’s Digital Markets Act includes a number of requirements for mobile app stores that aim to promote competition and fairness in the mobile app industry. Mark MacCarthy explains what to know about the regulatory regime. brookings.edu/articles/overs…

Overseeing app stores to promote competition in the Digital Markets Act brookings.edu/articles/overs…

“With the 30% fee, the [mobile] app market is smaller, less vibrant, more expensive, and less competitive than it would otherwise be,” writes Mark MacCarthy. brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

Competitive forces have manifestly failed to protect the public interest in the mobile app market, says Mark MacCarthy. brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

The lesson of NYC's requirement for bias audits of employment algorithms is that policymakers must regulate AI vendors, says Mark MacCarthy.

Putting the burden on employers alone was a mistake.
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The 40-year-old era of deregulation and letting even monopoly industries govern themselves is fading. It is time to apply a renewed regulatory thinking, including the need for price regulation, more broadly to digital industries, argues Mark MacCarthy. brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

Interested in policy conversations around social media, search engines and e-commerce platforms? Georgetown University Professor and The Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Mark MacCarthy will discuss key themes from 'Regulating Digital Industries' in an upcoming book talk: bit.ly/3up6pgp

For fair hiring in the AI age, regulate AI vendors, not just employers thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Mobile app developers and users are locked into a monopolistic grid of high prices and commission fees.

Read 'Regulating Digital Industries' author Mark MacCarthy on the need for price regulation on app stores: ow.ly/BAme50Qx0yr

App developers pay 30% of their revenue to Apple and Google as the price of monopoly app store services, writes Mark MacCarthy. In the marginally competitive market for credit card payment services, merchant fees are only 3% to 5%. brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

App stores have monopoly power over both sides of the market, app developers and users, says Mark MacCarthy. brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

Going deep on deep fakes --
Plus an interview with Rob Silvers on the Cyber Safety Review Board --
In Episode 489 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
With Sultan Meghji,Mark MacCarthy, and Maury Shenk
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Mobile app stores may need price regulation brookings.edu/articles/mobil…

Don’t miss CSIS Strategic Technologies Program’s This Does Not Compute with Mark MacCarthy, who joined James A. Lewis and Caitlin Chin-Rothmann to discuss the future business model of the internet.
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Congress is still figuring out how to rein in Big Tech. Mark MacCarthy has a bold idea: create an entirely new tech regulator—a tall ask given Congress hasn’t passed major tech legislation.

MacCarthy tells @POLITICO's Steven Overly why it’s necessary.
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ICYMI: Mark MacCarthy joined James A. Lewis and Caitlin Chin-Rothmann to discuss the future business model of the internet on CSIS Strategic Technologies Program's This Does Not Compute Podcast. Listen here.
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Thanks to Steven Overly and @POLITICO Tech for having me on to discuss my new book Regulating Digital Industries. Check it out here: politico.com/podcasts/tech

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Thank you Daniel J. Solove for recognizing my book on regulating digital industries!

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