Tag: Privacy

Apple has been warned by the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, not to use privacy and security concerns as a shield for anticompetitive...

By James C. Cooper & John M. Yun (George Mason University) Privacy and antitrust are on a collision course. Increasingly, privacy practices of large digital...

By G. R. Bhatia & Aaditya Ranbir Sahgal1 Competition regulators around the world have taken note of WhatsApp’s proposed 2021 Privacy Policy and Terms of...

By Filippo Lancieri (University of Chicago) The rise of data protection laws is one of the most profound legal changes of this century. Yet, despite...

By Tim Cowen, Claire Barraclough & Josh Koran1   Executive Summary Societies have designed antitrust laws to protect consumers from unfair practices (e.g. exclusive dealing, price fixing,...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) are milestone pieces of legislation, in major markets, one on...

AdTech has ridden the wave of data consumption and movement to exponential revenue growth. At the same time, in 2021, consumer privacy has reached...

Much like how there was debate in the past on whether the goals of antitrust and intellectual property law were incompatible or complimentary, we...

The mechanism of the GDPR limited legal grounds for the collection and processing of personal data, and the narrow and very restrictive interpretation of...

By Nicholas Economides (New York University) & Ioannis Lianos (University College London) Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users...