[Commlist] New Book: Platform Regulation: Exemplars, Approaches and Solutions

New Book by Pradip Ninan Thomas

*Platform Regulation: Exemplars, Approaches and Solutions*(2023), Oxford 
University Press, Oxford/NY

ISBN: 9780192887962

This book explores:

Anti-Trust in the USA

The Right to be Forgotten and the GDPR, EU

The Equalisation Levy, India

Digital Platforms Report, Australia

Description:

Over the last decade or two, a handful of powerful, monopolist platforms 
have embraced our lives worldwide. They intermediate our socialities and 
relationships, what we search for on the Internet, and our online 
purchases. We are living in a global economy that is fuelled by the 
monetization of affect. One is now only too aware that various platforms 
are very systematically using the advantages stemming from algorithmic 
power and platform externalities to mine and privatize personal data 
that is in turn sold to advertisers who target not just the present but 
also future economic behaviours of users. One now also hears of the 
complicity of some of these platforms in data breaches that have 
contributed to the making and unmaking of political fortunes of key 
political parties across geographies. This unprecedented power of 
platforms is, however, being challenged today. Data breaches, evidence 
of platform manipulations, platform complicities with state 
surveillance, and their monopolist behaviours and its consequences for 
competition and data privacy have become the basis for regulatory 
responses from governments throughout the world. National and regional 
courts of law have collected a lot of evidence on myriad forms of 
platform illegalities that discriminate against competitors and that 
point to the privatization of personal data on a global scale. The 
proposed volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and 
challenges related to platform regulation, the conundrums and paradoxes 
involved, and also to some of the well-conceived and manageable 
regulatory pathways currently being explored by national and regional 
governments. It highlights regulatory responses from four jurisdictions 
- the European Union, USA, India, and Australia.




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