{"id":16393,"date":"2024-10-30T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/eu-events-on-curbing-big-tech-distorted-by-attenders-with-industry-links\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:38:32","slug":"eu-events-on-curbing-big-tech-distorted-by-attenders-with-industry-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/eu-events-on-curbing-big-tech-distorted-by-attenders-with-industry-links\/","title":{"rendered":"EU events on curbing big tech \u2018distorted\u2019 by attenders with industry links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say 21% of people at workshops did not disclose on their applications relationships with firms being discussed <\/p>\n<p>More than one in five attenders at EU events on regulating big tech companies did not disclose links to the industry when applying to take part, according to transparency campaigners who say hidden networks are distorting public debate.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at three NGOs analysed nearly 4,000 registrations at European Commission workshops organised earlier this year to test companies\u2019 compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a law to curb anti-competitive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/29\/eu-events-curbing-big-tech-distorted-attenders-hidden-industry-links\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/71ad3a304d4a044a60752dde9e5a79518e8355fd\/0_328_8036_4821\/master\/8036.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d19263f038af9128ef5ad64e95526585\" title=\"EU events on curbing big tech \u2018distorted\u2019 by attenders with industry links\" \/>Campaigners say 21% of people at workshops did not disclose on their applications relationships with firms being discussed<br \/>\nMore than one in five attenders at EU events on regulating big tech companies did not disclose links to the industry when applying to take part, according to transparency campaigners who say hidden networks are distorting public debate.<br \/>\nResearchers at three NGOs analysed nearly 4,000 registrations at European Commission workshops organised earlier this year to test companies\u2019 compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a law to curb anti-competitive behaviour. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say 21% of people at workshops did not disclose on their applications relationships with firms being discussed More than one in five attenders at EU events on regulating big tech companies did not disclose links to the industry when applying to take part, according to transparency campaigners who say hidden networks are distorting public &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/eu-events-on-curbing-big-tech-distorted-by-attenders-with-industry-links\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU events on curbing big tech \u2018distorted\u2019 by attenders with industry links<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}