| When Thursday, May 21, 2020 12:00PM (EDT) Add to Calendar | Where Zoom Webinar Please click the link below to join the webinar on 05/21: https://zoom.us/j/97863682533 |
WASHINGTON (May 4, 2020) – Technology policy experts with inside experience at Facebook, the Department of Justice, the Council of Economic Advisers, MIT and the Federal Trade Commission will analyze the costs and benefits of congressional efforts to require data portability and interoperability from the big tech platforms.
The Technology Policy Institute has scheduled an online panel discussion on Thursday, May 21st at Noon EDT.
Requiring data portability – being able to easily move one’s personal data to a competing platform, perhaps together with the related requirement of “interoperability” – has become a rare point of widespread agreement. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation includes a right to data portability, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even included it in his internet regulation proposal. Portability, along with interoperability, is a central requirement of the “ACCESS” Act” introduced by Senators Warner, Hawley, and Blumenthal. Finally, three major reports on digital platform competition issues published in 2019 – by the European Commission, the United Kingdom Digital Competition Expert Panel, and the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago – endorsed a data portability requirement as well as some form of interoperability.
- Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
- Michael Katz, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, UC Berkeley; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division, DOJ
- Bijan Madhani, Privacy and Public Policy Manager, Facebook
- Catherine Tucker, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan
- Thomas Lenard (moderator), President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Event Contact: Ashley Benjamin, 301-653-1292, [email protected]
Press Contact: David Fish, 571-389-4446, [email protected]
The Technology Policy Institute
The Technology Policy Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization that focuses on the economics of innovation, technological change, and related regulation in the United States and around the world. More information is available at www.techpolicyinstitute.org/.
