The FTC was early to recognize that the ease with which online firms could collect and share consumer information would make privacy a core consumer protection issue. The FTC skillfully has used case-by-case enforcement under its section 5 authority to address privacy concerns for nearly...

This article argues that the AdTech market has undermined the fundamental right to privacy in the European Union and that current legislative and fundamental rights protections in the EU have been unsuccessful in restraining these privacy harms. The article further argues that these privacy...

Social media, search and mobile application giants are invoking data privacy to justify their anticompetitive conduct. Faced with alleged violations of antitrust law, these digital platforms argue that online competition must be sacrificed to protect their users’ data privacy. While some...

Many online platforms adopt the ad-sponsored business model, which involves offering free services to consumers while collecting their data and selling targeted advertising space to advertisers. However, collecting consumer data has raised growing privacy concerns, which may affect consumers’...

We model platform competition with network effects, infrastructure investment, and data collection and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data feedback improves service quality but may concentrate market power. Dispersed...

The global race for data-based technological superiority is on. In a world where “data is the new oil,” data-based comparative advantages may affect not only competition between firms but also the balance of power among jurisdictions. In the past two decades China has made important strides...

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services is continuing and even being catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic with the number of Internet-connected devices already far exceeding the number of people on the planet, leading to widespread implications for natural and digital...