Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Looking forward v much to our discussion this morning at the UK's Competition & Markets Authority on #interoperability: lessons (for the #DMCCA) from #telecoms regulation!

Tim Cowen (Preiskell & Co.) and Prof. @chrismarsden.bsky.social are both world authorities on this topic 👀 And we have a surprise guest to talk about payments & water regulation lessons!

Here are my background slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SBE2-MOzPn5wvsL7XhYqfmGEbJ7W1FvV6frq5VeXlL8/edit?usp=sharing
Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Threads "reached 100m sign-ups faster than any other app in history, which you can partly attribute to its linkage to #Instagram and streamlined profile creation via your IG info. But even so, it’ll go down as a record either way, while Threads also reached 100m active users in just a few months." #interoperability#DMA#DMCCA#Meta#SelfPreferencing

From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/114811908883686443
Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Thank you @EUCommission for committing (at the end of today's #compliance workshop) to further explore the geolocalisation obstacles #Meta is imposing on #DMA #interoperability for #NIICS! And good work @Amandine for raising the problem so clearly 👏

Screenshot of Ian Brown's questions in the online Q&A (Slido): * Does the Commission accept this restrictive Meta interpretation? GDPR, for example, explicitly applies to data controllers OUTSIDE the EU offering services within the EU, or monitoring the behaviour of EU residents * Don't the EDPS, EDPB, and other members of the DMA high-level panel have something to say that the Commission thinks Matrix and others being forced by Meta to geolocate all their users is trivial/unproblematic?! * I thought BEREC clearly said (i ts review of the original Meta reference offer) that a separate inbox for third-party chats was not acceptable? * Given how the geolocalisation DMA interpretation of Meta is causing such damage to fair and contestable NIICS, will the EC open an investigation and then take action to remove this obstacle?
Screenshot of Ian Brown's questions in the online Q&A (Slido): * Does the Commission accept this restrictive Meta interpretation? GDPR, for example, explicitly applies to data controllers OUTSIDE the EU offering services within the EU, or monitoring the behaviour of EU residents * Don't the EDPS, EDPB, and other members of the DMA high-level panel have something to say that the Commission thinks Matrix and others being forced by Meta to geolocate all their users is trivial/unproblematic?! * I thought BEREC clearly said (i ts review of the original Meta reference offer) that a separate inbox for third-party chats was not acceptable? * Given how the geolocalisation DMA interpretation of Meta is causing such damage to fair and contestable NIICS, will the EC open an investigation and then take action to remove this obstacle?
Screenshot of Ian Brown's questions in the online Q&A (Slido): * Does the Commission accept this restrictive Meta interpretation? GDPR, for example, explicitly applies to data controllers OUTSIDE the EU offering services within the EU, or monitoring the behaviour of EU residents * Don't the EDPS, EDPB, and other members of the DMA high-level panel have something to say that the Commission thinks Matrix and others being forced by Meta to geolocate all their users is trivial/unproblematic?! * I thought BEREC clearly said (i ts review of the original Meta reference offer) that a separate inbox for third-party chats was not acceptable? * Given how the geolocalisation DMA interpretation of Meta is causing such damage to fair and contestable NIICS, will the EC open an investigation and then take action to remove this obstacle?
small circle 🕊 in calmness
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@mamund thank you. I will also give the linked article on agentic systems a read.

Note that #ActivityPub here on the #fediverse has this need to discover and introspect the capabilities of actor endpoints on the network.

This entirely missing. With #ActivityStreams#LinkedData endlessly versatile, a player on the fediverse can freely invent their own flavours on-the-fly, introducing protocol decay and makes #interoperability harder.

Whack-a-mole driven development to moving targets ensues.

activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@steve @drahardja @dfyx

I'd say post-facto interop covers the load..

> Post facto [is] the absolute market dominance of a particular product in contravention of any applicable standards [..]. The vendor behind that product can then choose to ignore any forthcoming standards and not co-operate in any standardization process at all, using its near-monopoly to insist that its product sets the de facto standard by its very market dominance.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interope
Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@ianbrown.tech@bsky.brid.gy  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I was sad we didn’t have live translation for our #interoperability workshop, although the live transcription & rapid video publication hopefully helped non-English speakers with access to translation/interpretation tools.

Meta’s smart glasses demo of the latter was amazing 😳 #BabelFish #IGF2025

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jxlyustxwaohron4vq5zzflc/post/3lsgmztkwbe27
Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Hot off the press! My new analysis: #Security, #privacy and the @EUCommission’s proposed #iOS #interoperability requirements for connected devices under the Digital Markets Act #DMAhttps://hdl.handle.net/10438/36526

Old tabby cat pushes on some glasses and starts reading a thick book
Old tabby cat pushes on some glasses and starts reading a thick book