Tag: Privacy
“Something Is Happening Here but You Don’t Know What It Is....
Internet users surfing from one website to another, or using various web-enabled applications, regularly encounter “dark patterns” — web-design choices that trick users into...
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
By: Cristina Caffarra & Johnny Ryan (Pro Market)
There is a market power crisis and a privacy crisis, and they compound each other. The collection...
EU’s Vestager Warns Apple Over Privacy & Anticompetitive Behavior
Apple has been warned by the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, not to use privacy and security concerns as a shield for anticompetitive...
Antitrust & Privacy: It’s Complicated
By James C. Cooper & John M. Yun (George Mason University)
Privacy and antitrust are on a collision course. Increasingly, privacy practices of large digital...
WhatsApp’s 2021 Privacy Policy – Update from India
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...
Narrowing Data Protection’s Enforcement Gap
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...
“Privacy Fixing” After Texas et al v. Google and CMA v....
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 CCPA and the GDPR Are Not the Same: Why You...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) are milestone pieces of legislation, in major markets, one on...
Data Privacy in Adtech: Boon or Bust?
AdTech has ridden the wave of data consumption and movement to exponential revenue growth. At the same time, in 2021, consumer privacy has reached...
CCPA and Competition: The Value of Consumer Data, Privacy, and Pricing
Much like how there was debate in the past on whether the goals of antitrust and intellectual property law were incompatible or complimentary, we...
