Listen "S3 Ep48: Should Google be allowed to acquire Fitbit?"
Episode Synopsis
Another week, another tech merger, but this time with huge potential implications for who owns our health data and how it is used. Cristina Caffarra and Greg Crawford tell Tim Phillips why 17 economists have written a paper describing harm that Google's acquisition of Fitbit would cause to consumers.
Download Policy Insight 107, or read about it at VoxEU.
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