Lincoln Shorts Ep49: Mark Maxham, Developer's Perspective, Big Tech Anti-Competitive Behavior
Channel: Foundation for American Innovation
Date: 27/11/2020

Mark Maxham, Director Platform Software at Lacuna, discusses with Sean about why big tech is not sharing more user data now. We go into detail on how government law making and regulatory oversight does not currently react fast enough to significantly change technology business behavior. 

Startup technology companies want access to Facebook's relationship data because it is a goldmine  for developing successful products. 

We touch some on why the solution of breaking up highly integrated companies like Google, Facebook, or Apple to unlock that relationship data will likely lead to less functional products and poor value for consumers. 

More information on the subject: 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monopolist-google-violating-antitrust-laws

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2019/09/26/charting-a-new-course-for-tech-competition/

https://www.openmobilityfoundation.org/

https://lacuna.ai/

https://github.com/lacuna-tech

https://lincolnpolicy.org/tag/oversight/