There are increasingly calls for competition regulators to incorporate the possession of personal data into their analyses of anticompetitive practices and behaviour. The point is that the control of large amounts of both commercial and personal data will give companies an unfair advantage over...

This book provides a comparison and practical guide for academics, students, and the business community of the current data protection laws in selected Asia Pacific countries (Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) and the European Union. The book shows how over the...

The transnational trade in personal data, while emerging as a valuable economic activity, poses many challenges for regulators and organizations. One of the major challenges is the fragmented and ad hoc approach taken by countries, and the European Union, in their data protection laws. This has...