Personal Data for Meta AI Training — My contribution at DPOBlog on District Court of Amsterdam‘s ruling

I have con­tri­bu­ted a new ana­ly­sis to the DPO­Blog on the recent judgment of the Dis­trict Court of Ams­ter­dam, which pro­hi­bits Meta from using per­so­nal data for AI trai­ning. The decis­i­on illus­tra­tes the emer­ging rele­van­ce of pri­va­te enforce­ment under the Digi­tal Mar­kets Act (DMA) and its inter­play with data pro­tec­tion obli­ga­ti­ons. It also pro­vi­des an early…

Model Collapse and Access to Uncontaminated Datasets – A Competition Law Perspective

The artic­le exami­nes how Euro­pean com­pe­ti­ti­on law, spe­ci­fi­cal­ly the Essen­ti­al Faci­li­ties Doc­tri­ne, could app­ly to so-cal­­led uncon­ta­mi­na­ted data­sets in the field of AI. This con­clu­si­on is drawn by an inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned team of rese­ar­chers in a recent JOLT Digest con­tri­bu­ti­on. Their insights war­rant fur­ther reflec­tion, and the artic­le its­elf is worth rea­ding. Howe­ver, a brief sum­ma­ry and…

Digital Markets Act — Market Investigations

In addi­ti­on to the pro­hi­bi­ti­ons of the black­list, the Digi­tal Mar­kets Act (DMA) also con­ta­ins an inde­pen­dent instru­ment of mar­ket inves­ti­ga­ti­on. Three occa­si­ons for the initia­ti­on of a mar­ket inves­ti­ga­ti­on are pro­vi­ded for: Objec­ti­ve: The instru­ment of the mar­ket inves­ti­ga­ti­on is simi­lar to that of the sec­tor enquiry under car­tel law. Accor­ding to this, the com­pe­ti­ti­on authorities…

Digital Markets Act — In with regulation, out with regulation

The draft Digi­tal Mar­kets Act (DMA) is inten­ded to enable sec­­tor-spe­ci­­fic mar­ket regu­la­ti­on of so-cal­­led gate­kee­pers. Gate­kee­pers are com­pa­nies that ope­ra­te cen­tral plat­form ser­vices and ther­eby exceed the legal­ly defi­ned thres­holds. Spe­ci­fic con­duct obli­ga­ti­ons are posi­tively impo­sed on the­se com­pa­nies. Howe­ver, the strict stan­dard of Art. 5 and 6 DMA does not app­ly uncon­di­tio­nal­ly. This is because…

Digital Markets Act — Definitions and scope of protection

The DMA is aimed at digi­tal plat­forms and is inten­ded to sub­ject them to a sec­­tor-spe­ci­­fic mar­ket regu­la­ti­on regime. For this pur­po­se, a black­list of mea­su­res that are no lon­ger tole­ra­ted from a com­pe­ti­ti­ve point of view is to be included, which are pro­hi­bi­ted for “gate­kee­pers”. In addi­ti­on, the EU Com­mis­si­on is to be given exten­ded pos­si­bi­li­ties to…