#Consumer protection is beefing up, as we learned today in an interview with a representative of the German consumer protection agency. Carsten Ochs and I had a blast. A chapter on this will appear in our forthcoming volume on digital valuation practices (and their dynamics). #sociology

The examples from the battlefield were revealing, from tracking fake online stores (sometimes 10,000 of them just pop up) to public AI tools, legal struggles and the difficulty of reaching what is known as Gen Z.