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Guide to UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is designed to regulate the behaviour of major digital firms with significant market power in the U.K. The legislation grants the Competition and Markets Authority new powers to impose requirements on tech companies with “Strategic Market Status,” reminiscent of the “gatekeeper” organisations that must abide by the E.U.’s Digital Markets Act. However, while…
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Digital Scams More Likely to Hurt Black and Latino Consumers
In particular, a 2021 FTC report, “Serving Communities of Color” (PDF), notes that members of predominantly Black and Latino communities who reported scams are more likely than those in white communities to have conducted their transactions using cash, cryptocurrency, or money orders, which offer minimal fraud protections, while members of predominantly white communities are more likely to have used credit…
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