Podcast Feature: Data Navigator – “Does Competition Law Undermine the Data Act?”

I was recent­ly a guest on the Data Navi­ga­tor pod­cast, which takes a clo­ser look at the Data Act from a varie­ty of com­pe­ti­ti­on law per­spec­ti­ves. The epi­so­de is hos­ted by Dr. Mar­tin Schirm­ba­cher (Här­ting) and Dr. Huber­tus von Roen­ne (Upgrade). The title of the epi­so­de is: “Does Com­pe­ti­ti­on Law Under­mi­ne the Data Act?”My gene­ral ans­wer to that…

Digital Markets Act — What are virtual assistants?

For some weeks now, the­re has been con­sidera­ble media inte­rest in so-cal­­led intel­li­gent chat­bots. Whe­ther the­se are real­ly intel­li­gent and whe­ther the term “arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence” is appro­pria­te at all is open to ques­ti­on. They impress with their access to trai­ning data and num­e­rous pos­si­bi­li­ties for auto­ma­ti­on. WHAT ARE PER­SO­NAL ASSISTANTS? But even that is not…