Tag: Privacy
The Right to Privacy and Personal Data: Some Considerations for Optimal...
The protection of privacy and personal data is a must for maintaining democracies and avoiding authoritarianism led by extreme surveillance. For the optimal protection...
“First Act” of the European Data Economy – The Data Governance...
Large amounts of data are the core of the digital transformation. According to current estimates, the global volume of data will increase by 530...
Facebook v. Bundeskartellamt – May European Competition Agencies Apply the GDPR?
The relationship between privacy and competition law is complex and contentious. May or should competition agencies consider business conduct’s negative impact on privacy when...
Can the FTC Promulgate Effective Privacy Rules?
In the absence of federal privacy legislation, the FTC is widely expected to commence a rulemaking to “curb lax security practices, limit privacy abuses,...
The FTC Safeguards Rule: Information Security Program Elements
This article describes the elements of an information security program under the Federal Trade Commission Final Rule regarding Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (the...
Reforming India’s Competition Act: Considerations & Best Practices
Below, we have provided the full transcript of our panel discussion Reforming India’s Competition Act: Considerations & Best Practices. Read below to see the...
Is Loss of Privacy the Price that Consumers Pay for Otherwise...
One of the consumer harms from monopoly online platforms commentators point to is the loss of privacy. That is, privacy is a dimension over...
Data, Privacy, and Competition: Theories of Harm and Data Mobility
The dynamics of competition in data-powered ecosystems are motivated by user-related network effects and centered around users. Incumbent platforms thus have incentives to build...
Privacy as a Parameter of Competition Assessment
Below, we have provided the full transcript of our panel discussion Privacy as a Parameter of Competition Assessment. Read below to see the timely...
Privacy Now Looms Large in Antitrust Enforcement
By: Michael W. Scarborough, David Garcia and Kevin Costello (Sheppard Mullin)
Until very recently, if you asked an antitrust lawyer what privacy has to do with their practice, there...
