The CMA is arguably the most technically proficient competition regulator in the world, thanks to the #DigitalMarketsUnit (#DMU), a force of over 50 skilled engineers who produce intensely detailed, amazingly sharp reports on how tech monopolies work and what to do about them.

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Wow yikes! You'll likely need to submit to invasive age verification methods to access big platforms from UK if I get this right.

This might mean GovID to enter PornHub, biometrics for kids or new forms of digital ID rolling in.

Kids too.

#privacy #bigTech #DigitalMarketsUnit #DMU

Age checks, trolls and deepfakes: what’s in the online safety bill? | Internet safety | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/age-checks-trolls-and-deepfakes-whats-in-the-online-safety-bill

The UK plays a key role here. The country's Competitions and Markets Authority boasts the largest workforce of technical experts of any competition regulator in the world: the CMA's #DigitalMarketsUnit has 50+ full-time engineers, which allows it to produce the most detailed, most insightful market investigations of any nation's competition regulators.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-markets-unit

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