Data Collection In Online Platform Businesses: A Perspective For Antitrust Assessment

By Eliana Garcés – 

There has been a growing attention to the role that data and data analytics are playing in the online world. The current public debate is assimilating the collection of massive amounts of data by large online platforms to extraordinary clout on the public and almost unassailable dominance among economic actors. The reality is of course more complex and less scary and big generalizations are not applicable to the reality of online platform businesses. This paper fo