The Monopoly Report Podcast
1) Episode 49: Part 1 - Jon Leibowitz and the FTC's role during the early Google Era
Host Alan Chapell is joined by Jon Leibowitz, former chair of the FTC to discuss the Commission's impact on the digital media landscape from 2004 until 2013. In part 1 of the discussion, Chapell and M...Show More
2) Episode 48: The incredible shrinking definition of EU personal data
UK data protection pro Robert Bateman joins host Alan Chapell to discuss how the EU seems to be heading in the opposite direction than the U.S. as the CJEU narrows the definition of personal data ever...Show More
3) Episode 47: The Datatilsynet's Tobias Judin on consent
This week, Tobias Judin from Norway's data protection regulator, the Datatilsynet (and EDPB representative), joins host Alan Chapell to talk about trust, (mis)aligned incentives, and consent in the E...Show More
4) Episode 46: A legal critique of the Google Antitrust Remedies Decision
This week, host Alan Chapell is joined by Daniel Hanley of the Open Markets Institute as they attempt to make legal sense of Judge Mehta's September 2, 2025, decision in the Google Search Antitrust ca...Show More
5) Episode 45: Cobun Zweifel-Keegan on the great U.S. state regulatory experiment
Cobun Zweifel-Keegan joins host Alan Chapell to discuss key themes around U.S. state efforts to enforce on privacy AI and consumer protection. We talk about regulatory tension between the federal and ...Show More
6) Episode 44: Justin Evans and the Optimist's View of Data
Alan Chapell is joined by Justin Evan's where they discuss his book: The Little Book of Data. While designed for business teams, the book (and the podcast) also lights a path that can be helpful to th...Show More
7) Episode 43: Behind the curtain at the FTC
In this episode, Alan is joined by Shoshana Woodinsky, veteran journalist in the ads space turned tech expert for the Federal Trade Commission. Shoshana offers an unfiltered view of how things sometim...Show More
8) Episode 42: Contextual Integrity in the ads space
In this episode, Alan discusses Contextual Integrity as applied to the ad space with Professor Helen Nissenbaum. They go deep into profiling and the use of PETs. Alan encourages listeners to check ou...Show More
9) Episode 41: DuckDuckGo on balancing privacy and competition in the ads space
Kamyl Bazbaz and Joseph Jerome from DuckDuckGo join Alan to discuss the role of the browser, the intersection between privacy and competition and how DuckDuckGo differentiates itself within the crazin...Show More
10) Episode 40: Google's Ad Dominance with Ari Paparo
Ari Paparo and Alan Chapell discuss Ari's new book Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied its Way to Advertising Dominance. They also talk about the potential impact of the fallout of Google's a...Show More