Megan Kirkwood

3 weeks ago | techpolicy.press | Megan Kirkwood

Megan Kirkwood is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. The European Commission has issued its first non-compliance decisions under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

1 month ago | techpolicy.press | Megan Kirkwood

Megan Kirkwood is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Digital Markets Act’s First AnniversaryMarch 2025 marks the first year of an active Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission initially designated the first gatekeepers on September 6, 2023, with the six-month compliance period ending as of March 6, 2024. That deadline last year ushered in the first concrete changes the gatekeepers made, the first compliance reports published, and the first non-compliance investigations quickly launched.

1 month ago | techpolicy.press | Megan Kirkwood |Laís Martins

Megan Kirkwood and Laís Martins are fellows at Tech Policy Press. Last month, Brazil's national competition agency, the Council on Economic Defense (CADE), held a public hearing to collect input for its ongoing investigations against Apple and Google over conflicts related to their app stores. This rare move—possibly a first— in which CADE held a public hearing, was seen as a change of tone for the traditionally closed-off and opaque Council.

1 month ago | techpolicy.press | Megan Kirkwood

Megan Kirkwood / Mar 31, 2025Megan Kirkwood is a Fellow at Tech Policy Press. On March 18, 2025, President Donald Trump removed the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), jeopardizing the agency’s longstanding independence from the executive branch by placing it under exclusive partisan control and calling into question the agency’s future willingness to pursue enforcement actions against Big Tech.

2 months ago | techpolicy.press | Megan Kirkwood

Megan Kirkwood / Mar 12, 2025Megan Kirkwood is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Data portability is the ability of individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.