Because of the reliance on market analysis, current competition law may not be sufficiently fit for taking account of disruptive innovation which leads to the introduction of new products or services overthrowing existing markets. In the US, innovation has been given a more prominent place in...

The purpose of this article is to examine the alignment of the respective data protection and privacy, consumer protection and competition law policy agendas through the lens of pre-formulated declarations of consent whereby data subjects agree to the processing of their personal data by...

This article explores the scope of application and possible implementation of the right to data portability as introduced in the proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation. In March 2014, the European Parliament adopted amendments to the proposal that was introduced by the European...

Because of their multi-sided and dynamic nature, the application of competition law to online platforms may prove challenging. The paper maintains that existing competition concepts are flexible enough to be adequately applied to search engines and social networks. It is argued that, in order to...

While algorithms bring about benefits for consumers in the form of more efficient price setting, concerns have also been expressed about possible adverse effects including discrimination. The paper takes a competition law perspective in analysing a type of discrimination that is said to be...