Minimizing Privacy Risks in Regulating Digital Platforms: Interoperability in the EU DMA

The EU Digital Markets Act purports to benefit consumers and improve the competitiveness of digital markets. It is likely to have negative and unaddressed consequences, however, in terms of information privacy and security. I illustrate this by focusing on the DMA’s interoperability mandates. Only one of those obligations—on the interoperability of messaging services — is accompanied by a potentially adequate safeguard: a requirement that any third-party service must offer at least the sam