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Amendment 77 is a short amendment that seeks to level the playing field between the big tech integrated platforms and smaller businesses that can often bring together different capabilities in groups or chains of companies. It is one of the benefits of the internet that small businesses can communicate and collaborate to compete with their bigger competitors in this way. The issue with the language of the Bill is that it would enable data to be more freely shared within a single integrated business than through contractual protections that would operate as safeguards to prevent misuse of data by smaller business affiliates. Indeed, it could be argued that such contractual protections are stronger safeguards than would often arise within a single integrated firm.